A Diphtheria-Like Bacillus Causing Cellulitis in the Region of a Spontaneous Fracture in a Case of Tabes Dorsalis
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Published:1911-07
Issue:2
Volume:11
Page:137-142
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ISSN:0022-1724
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Container-title:Journal of Hygiene
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language:en
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Short-container-title:J. Hyg.
Author:
Dudgeon Leonard S.
Abstract
The interest of this case is due to the fact that the patient from whom this bacillus was isolated was a tabetic in whom a spontaneous fracture of his femur had occurred, and cellulitis developed at the level of the lesion due to a diphtheria-like bacillus. This organism was isolated and obtained in pure culture from the cellulitis and was found present in the films of the pus; also the patient's serum gave a complement fixation reaction with his own bacillus and for syphilis.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Immunology
Reference3 articles.
1. Abstracted from the article by Dr Graham-Smith, loc. cit. p. 444.
2. A Study of the Various Changes which occur in the Tissues in Acute Diphtheritic Toxaemia, more especially in regard to ‘acute cardiac failure’;Brain