In August 1947 two of us (M. P. B. and J. H. B.) published a paper entitled "Septicemia due to Salmonella Enteritidis" in the New England Journal of Medicine. 1 In a footnote we referred to 14 similar cases which had been observed at an Australian general hospital at Port Moresby, New Guinea, unaware that these cases had been included in a series of 50 cases of infection due to Salmonella enteritidis var. blegdam in Australian soldiers, the details of which were published in the Medical Journal of Australia 2 in March, 1946. On clinical and epidemiologic grounds there was good reason to believe that the patients described in the two papers were infected with the same organism, and efforts were therefore made to compare the strains on which the specific diagnoses had been based. The single strain of Baker and Bragdon, 1 strains from cases 8 and 10 of