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BACTERIOLOGY AND IMMUNITY 



Viruses, cultivation of, 959 



diseases due to, 1869-1981. See also 



under individ\ial diseases 

 distribution of in tissues, 1227 

 habitat of, 956 



inclusion bodies formed by, 958, 1228 

 intracellular position of, 958, 1228 

 killed, as immunizing agents, 1229 

 latent infections with, 957, 1226 

 masked, 1889 

 metabolism of, 963 

 morphology of, 954 

 nature of, 966 

 pathogenicity of, 965 

 pneumonia due to, 1875-1877 

 presence of in circulating blood, 1228, 1889 



in leucocytes, 957, 1233 

 resistance of, 961 

 saprophytic forms of, 956 

 size of, tabulated, 955 

 study of by cataphoresis, 950 

 by centrifugation, 953 

 by filtration, 949 

 by microscopy, 951 

 by ultrafiltration, 951 

 Virus-Ill infection of rabbits, 1909. See also 



Chapter 55 

 Viscera, bacteria normally present in, 1998 

 Vitamin B^. See Thiamin 

 Vitamin requirements of bacteria, 66 



sporogenes, 69 

 Vitamins, influence of on immunity, 1190-1199 

 synthesis and destruction of by intestinal 



bacteria, 1991 

 vitamin A, 1191 

 vitamin B, 1195 

 vitamin C, 1196 

 vitamin D, 1198 

 Voges-Proskauer reaction, 368, 661 

 Voldagsen's bacillus. See Salmonella typhi- 



suis var. voldagsen 

 Voles. See Field mice 



bacillus of. See Mycobacterium muris 

 susceptibility of to tubercle bacilli, 427, 

 430 

 Volutin granules, 23, 832 

 in 0. diphtherice,, 449 

 Vulva, normal flora of, 1996 

 Vulvo-vaginitis in children, 1455 



Warts, common and venereal, 1978 

 Wassermann test, 1817 



interpretation of, 1820 et seq. 

 Water, bacterial flora of, 2012 



factors determining, 2013-2021 

 bacteriological analysis of, 2021-2030 



classification of coliform organisms, 



2024 

 coliform count, differential, 2023 



presumptive, 2022 

 examination for faecal streptococci, 

 CI. welchii and pathogenic organ- 

 isms, 2025 

 interpretation of, 2025 

 plate count in, 2021 



Water, bacteriological analysis of, standards 

 of purity in, 2029 



diseases carried by, 2031 



distilled, effect of on bacter a, 117 



Leptospira in, 1830, 1831 



self-purification of, 2020 



supplies in relation to enteric fever, 1541 



swimming bath, 2030 

 Weil-FeHx reaction, 1853-1858 

 Weil's disease, 1828-1834 



diagnosis of, 1832 



differential diagnosis of from epidemic 

 jaundice, 1833 



Leptospira biflexa in, 1831 



Leptospira canicola in, 1837 



leptospirse in water in relation to, 1831 



leptospiral jaundice in animals, 1837 



meningitis in, 1829, 1837 



mode of transmission of, 1830 



infection of rats in relation to, 1830 



occupational incidence of, 1829 



prophylaxis and treatment of, 1833 



relation of to other leptospiral infections 

 1834-1837 



water-borne, 1830 

 Welch's bacillus. See Clostridium 

 Whitmore's bacillus. See Pfeifferella 

 Whooping cough, 1662-1666 



active immunization against, 1664 



diagnosis of, 1663 



serum treatment of, 1666 

 Wilson and Blair's medium, 1528 

 Winter dysentery of calves, 527 



vomiting disease, 1798 

 Wolhynian fever, 1851 

 Woods-Fildes hypothesis, 162 

 Worms, in spread of anthrax, 1732 

 Wound contamination, 1501 

 Wound infection, 1500-1503 



sources of pyogenic bacteria in, 1502-1503 

 Wright's method of counting bacteria, 80 



X factor in relation to growth of H. infiuenzx, 

 790-794 

 nature of, 791 

 X and V factors in relation to infection, 1208 

 Xerophthalmia, 1191 



X-rays, effect of on antibody formation, 1104 

 on bacteria, 108 



Yaws, 1825 



Yellow fever, 1953-1958. See also Chapter 55 



jaundice due to vaccination against, 1957 



jungle type of, 1954 



viscerotomy service in, 1954 

 Yersin type of tuberculosis, 426 

 Yoghurt, 750 



Ziehl-Neelsen stain, in identification of bac- 

 teria, 359, 407 

 Zone phenomenon in agglutination, 212 



in specific precipitation, 201 

 Zopfius, 652 



zopfil, 648, 652 



