782 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



In regard to the diagnosis of anthrax with the precipitation method, 

 K. BiERBAUM (Berlin. Tierarztl. Wchiischr., 21 (1911), Ao. 12, pi). 202-20J,).— 

 The results show that it is possible, as previously shown by Ascoli," to detect 

 anthrax after putrefaction has taken place and where the bacteriological ex- 

 amination has failed to reveal it. 



Endemic Malta (Mediterranean) fever in Texas with the isolation of the 

 Micrococcus melitensis from two patients, E. R. Gentry and T. L. Feben- 

 BAXJGH (Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc, 57 (1911), No. 11, pp. 8S9-891, figs. 2). — This 

 is a report of a laboratory and clinical study of 2 cases of Malta fever in man, 

 which had been previously noted (E. S. R., 25, p. 685), and which had entered 

 on a relapse. 



The organism isolated from the blood was found to agglutinate a specitic 

 serum in high dilution, to render milk alkaline, and not to ferment glucose. In 

 practically all resjiects the organism resembled HI. melitensis. The temperature 

 charts, blood cell counts, and symptoms are given in detail. 



The conclusion reached is that " endemic Malta fever exists in Texas at the 

 present time." 



Endemic Malta (Mediterranean) fever in Texas, E. R. Gentry and T. L. 

 Ferenbaugh (Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc., 57 (1911), No. 13, pp. 10Ji5-10Ji8, figs. 

 3). — Continuing previous work the authors report the clinical and laboratory 

 findings with 5 new cases of Malta fever. In 2 of these cases goat's milk was 

 not drunk at all, but the patients, who were children, played in dusty goat pens. 



In addition, a bacteriological examination was made of some animals from 

 a goat herd (9 angoras, 2 Spanish, and 12 Maltese female goats) from which the 

 milk taken by some of the patients was obtained. The serum from 8 of these 

 goats (34.7 per cent) agglutinated the Micrococcus melitensis. M. melitensis 

 was not isolated from the goats. 



[Endemic Malta (Mediterranean) fever in Texas], E. R. Gentry and T. L. 

 Ferenbaugh (Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc, 57 (1911), No. 1-'/, p. 1127). — ^According 

 to this report, 25 out of 128 goats taken from 3 herds which contained in all 

 about 3,000 animals, gave a positive agglutination test for Micrococcus meli- 

 tensis. " Only 8 of these had milk and they only in small quantity. Speci- 

 mens of milk plated out on glucosernutrose-litmus-agar gave a negative result 

 for M. melitensis in each instance." 



The results obtained by the intravenous injection of trypanblue in the 

 plasmosis of domesticated animals with especial reference to gall sickness, 

 G. T. Henderson (Vet. Rec, 2Jf (1911), No. 1199, p. //).— The author reports 3 

 cases of gall sickness due to Anaplasma marginale and Piroplasma mutans, in 

 which trypanblue was used with beneficial results. He states that he has 

 found trypanblue to give highly successful results in all the piroplasmoses of 

 domesticated animals other than that due to P. parvum. 



The transmission of Spirochaeta duttoni, E. Kindle (Parasitology, Jf (1911), 

 No. 2, pp. 133-149). — "About 30 per cent of the Ornitlwdoros moubata from 

 Uganda have been found to be immune to infection with Spirochceta duttoni. . . . 



" The spirochetal infection that may follow the bite of an infected 0. moubata 

 results from the entrance of the infective material, excreted by the tick whilst 

 feeding, into the open wound caused by the tick's bite. It is not the result of 

 the inoculation of infective material from the salivary glands." 



Sleeping sickness and animal trypanosomiases in Senegal, A. Thiroxjx 

 and L. d'Anfreville de la Salle (La Maladie du i:^ommeil et Ics Trypanoso- 



«Clin. Yet. [Milan], Sez. Prat., 33 (1910), No. 21, pp. 329-335; Ztschr. Infek- 

 tionskrank. u. Hyg. Haustiere, 7 (1910), TS^o. 5-^, pp. 375-379; Centbl. Bakt. 

 [etc.], 1. Abt, Orig., 58 (1911), No. 1, pp. 63-70, figs. 2. 



