Addendum

[摘要] Dr. Peter K. Olitsky has called to my attention the fact that a statement in my recent paper on the common cold (J. Immunol., 81: 91, 1958) could be interpreted to mean that Drs. Olitsky and McCartney showed that a filter-passing bacterium is the cause of common colds. Such an interpretation is in error. Drs. Olitsky and McCartney confirmed the previous reports of Kruse and Foster that the common cold could be transmitted to volunteers with the filtered nasopharyngeal washings of early cases of the disease, thus indicating that “the incitant is filterable.” In addition, from the washings of 12 of 19 early cases of common colds they cultivated representatives of the three groups of anaerobic filter-passing Gram-negative bacteria previously described by Olitsky and Gates (J. Exp. Med., 36: 501, 1922). These bacteria were found in filtered washings studied by the combined method of Smith-Noguchi fluid medium and anaerobic blood agar plates.

[学科分类] 生物科学（综合）