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Charles J. Armstrong

Born  1886
Died  1967

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American bacteriologist, 1886-1967. Washington.

Biography of Charles J. Armstrong

Bibliography

  • Further studies on the importance of milk and milk products as a factor in the causation of outbreaks of disease in the United States.
    Written with Thomas Parran, Jr.
    Washington, Gov. Print. Off., 1927. iii, 81 pages.
    Forms Supplement No. 62, Pub. Health Rep., Washington.)
  • Experimental lymphocytic choriomeningitis of monkeys and mice produced by a virus encountered in studies of the 1933 St. Louis encephalitis.
    Written with Ralph Dougall Lillie (born 1896).
    Public Health Reports, Washington, 1934, 49: 1019-1027.
    Isolation of the virus of benign lymphocytic choriomeningitis.
  • Successful transfer of the Lansing strain of poliomyelitis virus from the cotton rat to the white mouse.
    Public Health Reports, Washington, 1939, 54: 2302-2305.

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