ABSTRACT
A follow-up study of the 44 recipients of American Cancer Society, Inc., Special Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from 1962 to 1973 revealed that 11 of 21 M.D. candidates obtained their second (Ph.D.) degree at the end of training. By contrast, all but one among the 23 Ph.D. candidates were awarded the second (M.D.) degree. A great majority of either group remain in active research, regardless of whether or not they obtained the second degree. A very high percentage of their research is cancer related.
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American Cancer Society , Education, Medical, Graduate , Fellowships and Scholarships , Training Support , Voluntary Health Agencies , Follow-Up Studies , Humans , Research Support as TopicSubject(s)
Neoplasms , Research Support as Topic , Voluntary Health Agencies , Follow-Up Studies , United States , UniversitiesSubject(s)
Adjuvants, Immunologic/adverse effects , Influenza Vaccines , Military Medicine , Mortality , Autopsy , Collagen Diseases/mortality , Death Certificates , Emulsions/adverse effects , Follow-Up Studies , Hexoses/adverse effects , Humans , Hypersensitivity/mortality , Male , Mineral Oil/adverse effects , Neoplasms/chemically induced , Neoplasms/mortality , Statistics as Topic , United States , VaccinationSubject(s)
Disease Reservoirs , Plague/epidemiology , Animals , Disease Outbreaks , Insect Control , Insect Vectors , Insecticides/pharmacology , Plague/complications , Plague/microbiology , Plague/prevention & control , Respiratory Tract Infections/complications , Rodent Diseases/microbiology , Seasons , Siphonaptera/drug effects , Vietnam , Yersinia pestis/isolation & purificationABSTRACT
A medium, originally designed by Stuart and co-workers and later modified by Cary & Blair, for the maintenance and transport, without multiplication, of pathogenic bacteria contained in bacteriological specimens was tested in the laboratory and in the field in Viet-Nam to determine its effectiveness in preserving specimens known to contain Pasteurella pestis.The results indicate that this medium should be useful in diagnostic plague studies in areas where transport facilities are inadequate. Properly collected clinical specimens, sent to a central laboratory by any means and under any climatic conditions likely to be encountered in the hot tropics, should yield viable Pasteurella pestis for at least 30 days.
