BACTERIOLOGY AND IMMUNITY 



Pneumonia, Type III, treatment of with 

 bacterial enzyme, 1682 

 typing of infecting pneumococcus in, 



1678 

 vaccination against, 1683 

 vitamin A in relation to, 1195 

 viruses in, 1875 

 Pneumonic plague, 1638 

 Poisoning, food. See Food poisoning 



ptomaine, 1595 

 Polar staining, 37 



Poliomyelitis, 1926-1932. See also Chapter 55 

 latent infection in, 1226 

 natural antibodies to, 1226 

 Polysaccharide antigens of various bacteria, 

 279. For particular bacteria see under 

 organisms in question 

 Polysaccharides bacterial, as aggressins, 1071, 

 1679 

 as haptens, 258 

 excretion of, in disease, 1678 

 in stimulation of antibody production, 

 1119, 1684 

 Porges' method for capsule removal, 671 

 Portal pyaemia, 1491 



Potential difference in relation to agglutina- 

 tion, 214 

 to phagocytosis, 235 

 Poxes, animal, 1895-1897 

 Prausnitz-Kiistner reaction in hypersensitive- 



ness, 1156 

 Precipitin reaction, 200. See also Antigen- 

 antibody reactions 

 Precipitins. See under Antigen-antibody 

 reactions 

 formation of, 1109 

 protective action of, 1057 

 Preisz-Nocard bacillus. See Corynebacterium 



ovis 

 Pre-school child, immunization of against 



diphtheria, 1399 

 Primary stimulus, effect of on antibody forma- 

 tion, 1106 

 Proactinomycin, 178 

 Probability in relation to assessment of 



significance, 983 et seq. 

 Probabihty tables in counting bacteria, 82, 



2022 

 Promin. See Sulphone 

 Prontosil. See Sulphonamido-crysoidin 

 Propamidine, 172 

 Protein constituents of bacteria, 43 



metabolism of bacteria, 55 

 Proteins, antigenic differences between, 253 

 effect of chemical treatment on antigenic 



structure of, 253 

 relation of to full antigenicity, 260 

 Protein-sparing effect of carbohydrates in 



bacterial metabolism, 57 

 Proteus, 642-651 



classification of, 648 



diseases associated with, 1497, 1498, 1500, 



1501, 1586 

 hsemolytic activity of, 645 

 in relation to putrefaction, 645 

 to summer diarrhoea, 1586 

 prevention of swarming of, 644, 1528 



Proteus, swarming of, 643-645 

 hydrophilus, 647 

 mirabilis, 648 

 morgani, 642 et seq., 651 

 vulgaris, 642 et seq., 649 



in wound infection, 1501 

 X, 642, 647 et seq., 933, 1853-1858 

 zenkeri, 648 

 Protista, 949 

 von Prowazek-Halberstaedter inclusion bodies 



in trachoma, 1878 

 Pro-zone in agglutination, 212 

 in bacteriolysis, 228 



in precipitation. See Optimal antigen: 

 antibody ratio, 201 et seq. 

 Pseudoanthrax bacillus. See Bacillus pseudo- 



anthracis 

 Pseudo-lymphocytic choriomeningitis, 1932, 



1934 

 Pseudomonas, 506-512 



group of forming bluish -green pigment, 508 



in peritonitis, 1498 



in summer diarrhoea, 1586 



in suppurative lesions of urinary tract, 



1500 

 in wounds, 1501, 1503 

 aeruginosa. See Ps. pyocyanea 

 cavise, 512 

 cyanogena, 512 

 denitrificans, 512 

 fluorescens, 506 et seq., 511 

 pyocyanea, 506 et seq., 510 



antigenic structure of, 508 

 differentiation of from Ps. fluorescens, 



511 

 pathogenicity of for animals, 508, 511 

 pigment formation by, 508, 510 

 *■ variation of, 508, 510 



radicicola. See Rhizobium leguminosarum 

 Pseudorabies, 1941 



relation of to B, and'herpes viruses, 1921 

 Pseudotuberculosis, 426, 777, 1403, 1404, 1649 

 cladothrichicha, 1275 

 differentiation of from plague, 1640 

 experimental reproduction of in animals 



777 

 of man, 1650 

 of mice, 461, 1649 

 of pigs, 1650 

 of rodents, 1649 

 ofsheep, 468, 1403, 1649 

 Pseudotuberculous enteritis. See Johne's 



disease 

 Psittacosis, 1872-1875 



in fowls, pigeons and petrels, 1872, 1874 

 in psittacine birds, 1872 et seq. 

 -like diseases, 1875 

 Ptomaine poisoning, 1595 

 Puerperal fever, 1480-1485 



anaerobic streptococci in relation to, 1484 



chemotherapy in, 1485 



Dick test in relation to, 1480 



intrinsic and extrinsic infection in, 1481 



prophylaxis in, 1483 



serum treatment of, 1484 



various bacteria in relation to, 1485 



vitamin A in relation to, 1194 



