Summary
Dried sterilised tubercule bacculi (TB organisms). The culture is not active. Made by Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (CSL) Limited, Parkville, Victoria. CSL carried out much work on the chemistry of TB bacteria constituents during the 1930s-50s. Dried organisms were the starting material of the investigations. Bottled 1939.
Physical Description
Cloudy glass bottle with cork stopper, filled with pale brown powder. Paper label.
Significance
Example of CSL work done on tuberculosis
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Acquisition Information
Donation from CSL Ltd (Commonwealth Serum Laboratories), 24 Mar 2004
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Maker
CSL Ltd (Commonwealth Serum Laboratories), 45 Poplar Road, Parkville, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 Aug 1939
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Inscriptions
Label: Bottled 10-3-39/Commonwealth Serum Laboratories./Tubercle bacilli - human strain H37/Killed by steaming. Washed & dried at 37oC/62.8 gms from 48 cultures each of 100 cc/grown on Dorset & Henley's synthetic medium/Batch 2 D & H May-August 1939.
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Overall Dimensions
5.5 cm (Width), 13 cm (Height)
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