THE UNITED BIRMINGHAM HOSPITALS

THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL

(King Edward VII Memorial)

TELEPHONE: . LADYWOOD ROAD,
EDGeaston aa. ag PS BIRMINGHAM, 16.
Your ref. /mg; 2lst December, 1953.

Dear Professor Lederberg,

Thank you very much for your letter. I hope I have
understood exactly what you require. Dr. Nicolle has
carried out some phage typing for me on the Serotypes
Q.111 and 0.55 and I will send you different phage types
of these two serotypes. i will include the origin of
Specimens and the date of isolation. I think it might
be best if I delayed sending these until after Christmas
as our post offices are rather liable to be jammed-up at
this time of the year.

In the meantime perhaps you would consider whether
you would like any of the other serotypes that we have
found associated with epidemics. In particular the
ones I thought of were strains that plagued us two years
ago, which fit into Kauffmann's scheme as 0.114. Our
name for these was Shore, that being the first patient's
name. This organism has been associated with white
scours and Dr. Joan Taylor and Mrs. Charter have carried
out quite extensive work on it. Recently we have had
quite a severe epidemic with an entirely new strain
which has not been assigned with Kauffmann's 0 type yet.
Our name for this at the moment is Cigleris, again the
name of the first patient whose strain was used to
immunise a rabbit.

Yours sincerely, wdc iT Cm—pAn tz f BR Sinen,

(K.B. Rogers)
Clinical Pathologist

Professor J. Lederparg,
Associate Professor of Genstics,
Genetics Department,

University of Wisconsin,
Madison, Wisconsin.

U.S.A.