Experiments on the Spirillum of Rat-Bite Fever
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Knowles, Das Gupta and Sen (1936) have observed that 15 of a batch of 31 white mice (Mus muscuius) showed spontaneous infection with Spirillum minus. These mice were caged in cages of narrow meshed iron-netting. No rat could possibly get at the mice to bite them. On looking through the literature it is found that other workers such as Robertson (1930), McCluskie (1930), and lately Francis (1936) have also recorded the occurrence of natural infection in these animals. How does this dissemination take place ? To throw some light
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