A case of laboratory infection of recurrent typhus through the conjunctiva of the eye

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Cases of infection with recurrent typhus of laboratory workers dealing with infectious material containing spirochetes, as well as pathologists and anatomists, are not entirely rare. In the old literature, there are cases of infection of Dr. Mink ) and Perls ) (the first was infected with the blood of a recurrent, the second during the autopsy of a corpse),. Mantenfel ) (infection during laboratory work), Grushinsky ) (5 cases of infection of surgeons during the operation of patients with recurrent typhus). Recently, Dr. Alexandrov) described the infection of a laboratory attendant when cleaning test tubes from under the cultures of Obermeyer's spirochetes grown according to the method of Prof.Aristovsky.

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