Armong the passengers who arrives in Shanghai on Saturday by the Blue Express was Dr. S. M. Tao, technica! expert of the National." Epidemic Prevention Bureau in Peking. Dr. Tao was recently recommended for a research fellowship in the Univ: rsity of Michigan, US.A. For a num. ber of years she has held the position as senior bateriologist in the Michigan State Board of Health and was the first Chinese woman scientist given this distinction: Previous to her taking up her present position, she was professor of Bacteriology anc Parasitology at the Woman's, Medic: Colleye, West. Gate.
At the ninth congress of the Fw Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine in Nanking, Dr. Tao presented] two papers which are of particular Tocal interest. In the one on men: Ingococeus. the cause of epidem! meningitis or cerebrospinal fever, was shown from a study of "ho Dacteria recovered from cases 10] Hangchow, Hongkong, Nanking, Po king, and' Shanghai that the' the tapeutie serum produced abroad with foreign cultures was not as effective} as that prepared from local strains} the organism causing the infection This finding Is. of particular. signitteice in the treatment of this ima! portant. disease, her second paper on typhoid bacillus, Dr. Tao "shows that cases of typhoid fever fave been often encountered in this country" amene! those who have been recently vacduated with typhoid vaccine pre: pared from the European or Rawlings strain of the. bacillus. " Comparativ tests with a special inagglutinab! strain of typhoid. bacillus " Isolated: froma Chinese patient indicates that the local bacillus is highly. virulent 'Against it vaccination with the stang-) ard "foreign strain' offers scanty protection view of these findings seems desirable that in the prophylactic vaccination against typhoid fever a vaccine prepared from potent local strain of typhoid bacillus' be used.
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