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The types of Tubercle Bacilli occurring in Tuberculosis of the Human Genito-urinary Tract
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 May 2009
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Seventeen cases were examined, the disease affecting the genital organs in nine instances (seven testes, one salpinx, one prostate) and the urinary tract in eight.
The bacilli obtained were of “human” type in fourteen cases and “bovine” in three.
The three “bovine” cases were affections of the kidney in persons aged, respectively, 25, 19 and 20 years.
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1 Six cases from which negative results were obtained are excluded from the series. In four of these negative cases egg tubes were inoculated with the spleens of guinea-pigs killed six weeks after intraperitoneal inoculation with centrifuged deposit of urine. In every instance the culture tubes remained sterile.
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