BACTERIOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS OF MIXED INFECTIONS (PLAGUE, ANTHRAX, TULAREMIA, BRUCELLOSIS),
Abstract
During the simultaneous subcutaneous infection of guinea pigs with a mixture of plague, anthrax, tularemia, and brucellosis bacteria, taken in a specific dose and in a specific quantitative relationship, in the overwhelming majority of test animals a generalization of the infectious process developed. Taking part in this were all the representatives of the microbial association; however, the leading place apparently belongs to the anthrax bacilli. During the bacteriological investigation of the dead animals, a special elective nutrient media guaranteed the separate isolation of pure cultures of all the species of bacteria which were utilized for the reproduction of the tetrainfection. Whether in this case a qualitatively new infectious process develops or if this represents only the sum of all those changes which are characterized by each moninfection separately remains completely unclear. Apparently the answer to this problem may be obtained after pathohistological investigation. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1965
- Accession Number
- AD0648116
Entities
People
- G. N. Lenskaya
Organizations
- United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories