During two years spent as a technician in the Department of Bacteriology of the Children’s Memorial Hospital, it was noted how frequently cultures from children with upper respiratory tract infections yielded none of the common pathogens by routine laboratory aerobic culture methods. The etiologic agents of cases such as these might well be viral or aerobic bacteria not ordinarily recognized as pathogenic, or anaerobic bacterial species. The anaerobic bacterial flora of the upper respiratory tract has been but little studied, possibly due to the time consuming and cumbersome methods of obtaining anaerobiosis; possibly because relatively little is known about anaerobic bacterial species, and their classification is still in a state of confusion. It was thought, therefore, that a survey of the anaerobic flora would prove of interest, and perhaps yield further results showing some correlation between certain anaerobic species and disease, the flora of the respiratory tract at different ages, and cast a little more light upon the taxonomy of anaerobic bacteria. This thesis presents a preliminary study.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.123827 |
| Date | January 1949 |
| Creators | Collins, Anne M. |
| Contributors | Stevenson, J. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Bacteriology.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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