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On the existence of two forms of diphtheria bacillus B. diphtheria gravis and B. diphtheriae mitis.

J. Path. Bact., 34, 667-81. 1931.

J. S. Anderson, F. C. Happold, J. W. McLeod, and J. G. Thomson were the first to distinguish the gravis, mitis, and intermediate types of C. diphtheriae.

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