Spirillum (Abacterial) Pyuria

The significance of pleuropneumonia-like or L organisms in non-gonococcal urethritis, Reiter's disease, and abacterial pyuria.

The first member ofthe group ofpleuropneumonia organisms was isolated by Nocard and Roux in 1898 from cases ofcontagious pleuropneumonia of cattle, a disease in which the essential pathological lesions are gross pulmonary cedema, pleural exudate, and arthritis. A similar organism was found by Bridre and Donatien (1923, 1925) in sheep and goats suffering from agalactia, a syndrome which includes...

Spirillum Fever

found ih the blood in certain diseases are consequences or causes, essential phenomena or epiphenomena; whether, in other words, these diseases are caused by the accidental entrance into the blood of the germs of these organisms and their development there, or whether the organisms are mere accidents of the malady, forms of life due to changes in organic fluids in which they find, owing to thes...

Spirillum Clinical Manifestations

Spirillum Fever in India

Sir,?J have read with interest Major Wimberley's letter in your June issue regarding the prevalence of spirillum fever in the Peshawar Valley. While Officiating as Civil Surgeon here, I have met with a severe and extensive epidemic of the disease, and the facts of the case may be of some interest. Information was received that a large number of cases of fever were occurring in the Eastern porti...

Pyuria and bacteriuria.

Urinary tract infection in childhood has long been recognized as a far from benign condition, yet the criteria for diagnosing such a condition are by no means uniform. While the final diagnosis rests on bacteriological evidence, the interpretation of significant bacteriuria in paediatric practice is particularly difficult. Various screening tests have been designed of which urine microscopy in ...