BACTERIOLOGY AND IMMUNITY 



Limberneck in chickens, 880, 1622 

 Lindner's initial bodies in trachoma, 1878 

 Lipopolysaccharide antigens. See Glycolipoid 



antigens 

 Liquid air, effect of on bacteria, 112 

 Lister, 11 

 Lister ella, 395-403, 401. -See Erysipelothrix 



monocytogenes 

 Lister's method of counting bacteria, 81 

 Litmus milk, changes produced by bacteria in, 



367 

 Liver flukes in causation of black disease, 



1781 

 Local anaphylactic reactions, 1151 

 Local formation of antibodies, 1101 

 Local immunity, 1180-1188. See also Im- 

 munity, local 

 Localization of bacteria, 1005, 1045 

 Loewenberg's bacUlus, 494, 667, 1789 

 Logarithmic phase of growth, 82, 88-94 

 Lombriz of sheep, 1646 

 Lone Star fever, 1846 

 Louping-iU, 1925 

 Liibeck catastrophe, 1306, 1341 

 Lukes, canine typhus of, 1837 

 Lungs, relative steriMty of normal, 1024 

 Lygranum, 1871 

 Lymph capillaries, permeabihty to foreign 



matter of, 1042 

 Lymph glands. See Lymph nodes 

 Lymph nodes, fate of bacteria in, 1043 



fate of viruses in, 1045 



filtering action of, 1043 



formation of antibodies in, 1104 

 Lymphadenitis, epizootic, of guinea-pigs, 1495 



streptococcal, of dogs, 1496 

 Lymphadenoma, 1981 

 Lymphatic blockade, 1044 



system, availability of antibody in, 1061 

 Lymphocytic choriomeningitis, 1932 

 Lymphogranuloma inguinale, 1869 

 Lymphopathia venereum, 1869 

 Lysis. See Bacteriolysis, Hsemolysis and Bac- 

 teriophage 

 Lysozyme, 1020, 1022, 1175 



in tears, 1025 



in tissues, 1998 



MacConkey's medium in cultures from enteric 

 fever, 1527 



in water analysis, 2022 

 McLeod's medium, 451, 1374 

 Macrophages, 1035. See also Histiocytes 

 Mad itch, 1941 

 Madura disease, 1275 

 Malignant catarrh of cattle, 1966 



ojdema, 1778 



pustule, 1733 

 Mallein test, 1412 

 Malta fever, 1693-1697. See also Undulant 



fever, due to Br. melitensis 

 Maltase in serum, 367, 534 

 Manchester bacUlus. See Shigella newcastle 

 Marfanil, 158, 167 



Marseille, exanthematic fever of, 1848 

 Masai, diet and resistance of, 1200 



Mass law, in antigen-antibody reactions, 219 



in enzyme adaptation, 293 

 Massauah vibrio, 526 



Massol's bacillus. See Lactobacillus bulgaricus 

 Mastitis, suppurative in nursing mothers, 1492 

 Mastitis in cattle, 1493 



C. pyogenes associated with, 1494 

 staphylococci associated with, 1493, 1494 

 streptococci associated with, 581, 1493, 

 1494 

 Mazun, 750 

 M- concentration of living organisms in culture, 



94 

 Measles, 1949-1952. See also Chapter 55 

 latent infection in, 1226 

 prophylaxis of, 1950-1952 

 reproduction of in animals, 1949 

 Meconium, bacteria in, 1989 

 Media indicator, use of in obtaining pure 

 cultures, 356 

 selective, use of in obtaining pure culture, 



355 

 soUd, introduction of by Koch, 10 

 Mediterranean fever. See Undulant fever 

 Melioidosis, 1415 

 Melitin reaction in diagnosis of undulant fever, 



1705 

 Membrane, cytoplasmic, of bacterial cell, 27 

 Meningitis, 1431-1451 



acute, lymphocytic type of, 1932 

 aseptic, 1932 



cerebrospinal, 1431-1449. See also Neiss- 

 eria meningitidis 

 carrier epidemic in, 1434 

 carrier rate in, 1434, 1442 



effect of overcrowding on, 1434- 

 1436 

 chemoprophylaxis in, 1443 

 chemotherapy in, 1448 

 diagnosis of, 1438 



by examination of petechial skin 

 lesions, 1441 

 epidemiology of, 1432-1438 

 mode of spread of, 1433 

 prophylaxis of, 1441 

 rhinopharyngitis in, 1434 

 routes of infection in, 1436 



direct extension from nose, 1436 

 hsematogenous, 1437 

 serum treatment of, 1444-1448 

 vaccination in, 1444 

 influenzal, 1450 

 in Weil's disease, 1829, 1837 

 pneumococcal, 1449 

 streptococcal, 1449 

 tuberculous, 1290, 1449 

 imcommon forms of, 1451 

 Meningococcus. See Neisseria meningitidis 

 Meningo-encephalitis of rabbits, 1916, 1924 

 Meningo-pneumonitis virus, 1876 

 Metabolic properties of bacteria, 360, 367 

 Metabohsm of bacteria, 42-74 



mechanisms of, 46 et seq. 

 Metachromatic granules, 23, 449, 532 

 Metallic salts, effect of in antibody formation, 



1115, 1122 

 Metals, effect of on bacteria, 120-130 



