Sibling saviours of the maternity ward

• Autores: Leonard Colebrook
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3111, 2017, págs. 40-41
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Colebrook and Colebrook examine how infectious disease physician and microbiologist Shiranee Sriskandan rescued a box of 80-year-old infection samples awaiting demolition at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in London. It was 1998, and Sriskandan was studying group A streptococci at Imperial College London. Intrigued by the message, from a retired microbiologist, Sriskandan and her PhD student hightailed it to Queen Charlotte's. Construction workers let them into the boarded-up building, empty except for an enormous cardboard box, which was full of broken sample bottles and smaller boxes. She and her student donned protective clothing, extracted three or four intact boxes, put them in a big biohazard bag and made their exit. Inside the boxes were yet smaller ones, containing about 1000 glass ampoules labeled with codes. Investigating further, Sriskandan discovered that her rescued samples had been collected by Leonard Colebrook, a doctor at Queen Charlotte's in the 1930s.