The Etiology of Yellow Fever

Etiology of Yellow Fever

By the inoculation of guinea pigs intraperitoneally with the emulsions of kidneys from wild rats and mice captured in Guayaquil, it was found that 67 per cent of the wild rats tested harbored in their kidneys a leptospira which produced in guinea pigs symptoms and lesions identical with those produced by Leptospira icterohamorrhagia derived either from patients suffering from infectious jaundic...

The Yellow Fever Initiative

ETIOLOGY OF YELLOW FEVER. IV. THE ACQUIRED Im~ltrNITY oF GIYIN'EA PIGS AGAINST LEPTO- SPIRA ICTE1ROIDES AFTER THE INOCULATION OF BLOOD OF YELLOW FEVER

Most of the attempts to transmit yellow fever by inoculating the blood of patients into various animals have ended in failure. As stated elsewhere 1 out of 74 guinea pigs, in only eigtlt were the results positive, and in other species of animals they were all negative. I t should be emphasized that for the purpose of transmission cases were selected which were still in the early stage of the di...

Yellow fever.

1MD, Infectious Disease Specialist, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Sociedade Brasileira de Infectologia. MSc in Medicine – Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP). PhD in Medicine – Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, FMUSP. Fellow American College of Physicians, São Paulo, SP, Brazil 2MD, Infectious Disease Specialist, Hospital Israelit...

Yellow fever