It was demonstrated by Edwards (1) more than 30 y e a r s ago that cultures accepted as typical strains of Aerobacter aerogenes, and isolated under circumstances which did not indicate that they had any immediate connection with the intestinal tract of man or animals, were indistinguishable f r o m Klebsiella cultures and, indeed, some of them were biochemically and serologically identical with classical Friedlander strains. In spite of this observation, and al
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