BACTERIOLOGY AND IMMUNITY 



Actinomycosis, due to facultative aerobic 

 Actinomyces, 1276-1278 

 infective arthritis of mice, 1278 

 rat-bite fever, 1276 

 in swine, 1271 

 mode of infection in, 1271 

 Activated sludge method in sewage purifica- 

 tion, 2033 

 Active immunity. See Immunity, active 

 Adaptive enzjmes in bacteria, 293 

 Adhesion phenomenon, 912, 1833 

 Adjuvant substances for enhancement of 



antigenic response, 1115, 1116, 1123 

 Adsorption in antigen-antibody reactions, 199, 



216-219, 226. 240, 273-275 

 Aerobacter. See Bacterium xrogenes 

 Aerobes, obligatory, 70, 360 

 enzyme sj'stems of, 70 

 Aerobic and anaerobic incubation, use of in 



obtaining pure cultures, 354, 360 

 Aerobic spore-bearing bacilli. See Bacillus 

 Aerobiosis, 70 et seq. 



in identification of bacteria, 360 

 Aeiosols, 2007-2009 

 African horse sickness, 1965 

 Agalactia, contagious, of goats, 945, 1867 

 Agar, 10 

 Agglutinating serum, use of in obtaining pure 



cultures, 355 

 Agglutination, 211. See also Antigen-anti- 

 body reactions and under individual diseases 

 Agglutinins. See also Antigen-antibody re- 

 actions 

 absorption of, by bacteria, 212, 273 

 cold, in virus pneumonias, 1877 

 formation of in response to infection, 1120 

 to primary stimulus, 1106 

 to repeated injections, 1113 

 natural, 1085 et seq. 



for various organisms. See under 

 individual diseases 

 protective action of, 1058 

 Agglutinogens, 195. See also Antigens, bac- 

 terial 

 Aggressins, bacterial, 1068-1074 

 antigens, relation of to, 1072 

 anti-opsonic effect of, 1069-1071 

 pneumococcal polysaccharides as, 1678 

 polysaccharide haptens as, 1072 

 Air, bacteriology of, 2002-2010 

 contamination of, 2004 

 droplet infection of, 1312, 2003 

 infection of, measures for controlling, 



2005-2010 

 liquid, effect of on bacteria, 112 

 Aliyami, 1834 

 Alastrim, 1884, 1889 

 Alcohol, effect of on immunity, 1209 

 Alcoholized T.A.B. vaccine, 1553 

 Alcohols, effect of on bacteria, 132 

 Alexine, 193, 196 



Alimentary tract, bactericidal mechanisms in, 

 1020 

 normal flora of, 1986 

 importance of, 1989 

 origin of, 1989 

 suppurative lesions of, 1497 



Alkalies, effect of, on bacteria, 120 



on bactericidal action of gastric juice, 

 1021-1023 

 Allantiasis. See Botulism 

 Allergy, 1160-1168 

 bacterial. 1162 



relation to immunity, 1 163, 1201, 1330 

 infection-immunity in, 1165 

 Koch's phenomenon as- example of, 1161, 



1326 

 tubercxdin reaction, as example of, 1161, 



1326 

 virus diseases, in relation to, 1241 

 Alpha rays, effect of on bacteria, 110 

 a-hydroxyphcnazine, 173 

 Aluminium salts, effect on antigenic stimulus, 



1115 

 Alum-precipitated toxoid in diphtheria im- 



mimization, 1393 

 Amboceptors, 198, 225, 228 

 Amino-acids, as essential nutrients for bac- 

 teria, 65 

 role of in bacterial nutrition, 56, 62 

 Amino-acridine compounds in chemotherapy, 



172 

 Ammonia, methods of examination for, 369 

 Anaemia, infectious, of dogs, 904, 1798 

 of horses, 1837, 1966 

 of rats, 904, 1797 

 Anaerobes, enzyme systems of, 70 

 facultative, 70, 360 

 obligatory, 70, 360 

 Anaerobic bacilli, species of. See Fiisiformis 



and Clostridium 

 Anaerobic infections of animals, 1778-1783 

 black disease, 1780 

 CI. gigas in, 1781 

 relation of liver flukes to, 1781 

 blackleg, 1778 

 braxy, 1779 



German type, 1780 



Northern type, 1779 



due to CI. welchii, 1781-1783 



enterotoxsemia, infectious, of sheep, 



1782 

 lamb dysentery, 1781 

 pulpy kidney disease of lambs, 1782 

 " struck " in sheep, 1782 

 gas gangrene, 1778 

 malignant oedema, 1778 

 Anaerobic spore- bearing bacilli. See Clos- 

 tridium 

 Anaerobic streptococci, 596, 1484, 1772, 1996 

 Anaerobiosis, 70 et seq. 



in identification of bacteria, 354, 360 

 possible relation of hydrogen peroxide to, 



72 

 role of oxidation-reduction potential in, 71 

 Anamnestic reaction, 1122 



diagnosis of enteric fever in inoculated 

 persons in relation to, 1539 

 Anaphylactic shock, 1136-1151 

 acetyl- choline in, 1150 

 anaphylactoid shock, relation of to, 1144 

 anaphylatoxin in, 1143 

 desensitization in, 1142 

 different antisera, effectiveness of in, 1140 



