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THE chemical composition of the causative organism of epidemic typhus fever, Rickettsia prowazeki, is quite obscure. A chemical study was therefore undertaken of Rickettsia cultivated in the lungs of white mice, purified suspensions of which are used for the preparation of vaccines1.
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TOVARNICKIJ, V., KRONTOVSKAJA, M. & ÄŒEBURKINA, N. Chemical Composition of Rickettsia prowazeki. Nature 158, 912 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158912a0
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