COAGULATION OF BLOOD PLASMA BY PLAGUE AND PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS BACILLI,
Abstract
The study shows that the capacity to coagulate plasma is a characteristic feature of plague, but not of pseudotuberculosis, bacillus, since all the strains of pseudotuberculosis causative agent investigated did not evidence, after repeated testing, a capacity to coagulate plasma. The persistent absence of plasmocoagulation and fibrinolytic activity in pseudotuberculosis bacillus suggests that in this case one is dealing with a qualitative distinction between plague and pseudotuberculosis bacilli. Inasmuch as the capacity for plasmocoagulation, as well as fibrinolytic activity, is a feature which denotes a qualitative distinction between plague and pseudotuberculosis bacilli, the plasmocoagulation test can be of significant interest for the differential diagnosis of plague and pseudotuberculosis bacilli.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1964
- Accession Number
- AD0617388
Entities
People
- A. V. Korotaeva
- G. A. Yaromyuk
- I. V. Domaradskii
- L. V. Vasyukhina
Organizations
- United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories