A Note on the Investigation of Suspected Plague Cases in the Campbell Hospital, Calcutta
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on a slide proved highly useful in identifying the organism. Later we found that biochemical and animal inoculation tests were not necessary for identification. A gram-negative thick, short rod-shaped organism growing in characteristically sticky colonies and showing high agglutinability with antiplaguc serum were sufficient for identification. Bacteriological examination for Past, pesiis proved negative in the remaining 69 cases. Streptococ. pyogenes was isolated in 2 cases, Staphylococ. aureus in 5 cases and Streptococ: viridans in 1 case?all isolated in pure culture. Most of the cases in which plague bacilli were not found were clinically suspicious cases of plague. The negative findings might have been due to either of two causes : (i) the cases were of mild type; (ii) most of them were having sulpha treatment before the material was taken. It is interesting to note here that in one case Past, pestis was isolated even after 2 days' treatment with streptomycin. All the cases were of bubonic type. In one
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