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Filtration Experiments with Spirochaeta Schaudinnii

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

E. C. Smith
E. C. Smith
Affiliation:
Medical Research Institute, Lagos, W. Africa
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It has been shown that S. schaudinnii will easily pass through Berkefeld V filters under a negative pressure of considerably less than one atmosphere, but B. pyocyaneus was always found in the filtrates in association with the spiro-chaetes. Attempts to pass S. schaudinnii through Berkefeld N filters were uniformly negative.

Inoculation experiments on native volunteers made with (a) filtrates containing S. schaudinnii and B. pyocyaneus, (b) a mixture of these organisms combined with B.fusiformis, and (c) an emulsion of B.fusiformis in broth, did not give rise to ulceration.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , October 1934 , pp. 429 - 432
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1934

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