 Further, he became interested in the Royal Army Medical Corps and
actually left for Salonika, where he was in charge of the base laboratory, a few weeks after his phage paper was published.Supposedly after that point, Twort was inundated with routine and could no longer pursue his research.To explain why he did not continue his work on bacteriophages, Twort responded, "it was sometime after the end of the war before I was really free again to continue the investigation, but at that time most of the additional details of the phenomenon had been published by other workers under the title of 'the bacteriophage'.