“…Type 29, in contrast, had been uncommon before the widespread outbreak it caused in bovines and man. The first strain of this type identified in that outbreak has been intensively studied in the Enteric Reference Laboratory, and is designated RT1 (Anderson & Lewis, 1965a, b;Anderson, 1966Anderson, , 1968Anderson, , 1969. It was the source of A, the prototype of the A-like group of transfer factors.…”