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tick appearing in the spring coincident with the appear- 

 ance of the disease. Ticks taken from moose dying of the 

 disease transmitted it to guinea pigs and rabbits in the 

 laboratory. A "bacterium, which Cahn, Wallace, and Thomas 

 (1932) named Klebsiella paralytica , was isolated from these 

 ticks taken from diseased moose. When this "bacterium was 

 injected into animals, symptoms were produced similar to 

 those in the tick-infested laboratory animals and in the 

 diseased moose. Summarizing their experiments, Wallace, 

 Calm, and Thomas (1933) state, "while we have not proved 

 that Klebsiella paralytica is the cause of moose disease, 

 we have presented a series of observations which strongly 

 indicate that it may "be the cause." 



See Bergey's Manual, pth ed. , p. lj-02, for a description 

 of this organism. 



*Cahn, A. R. , Wallace, G. I., and Thomas, L. J. 1932 A 

 new disease of moose. III. A new "bacterium. Science, j6_ f 



197^. 

 Thomas, L. J., and Cahn, A. R. 1932 A new disease of 

 moose. I. Preliminary report. J. Paras itol. , 18, 219- 



231. 

 Wallace, G. I., Calm, A. R. , and Thomas, L. J. 1933 

 Klebsiella paralytica a new pathogenic bacterium from 

 "moose disease." J. Infectious Diseases, £2, 386-Ul^. 



Tribe: PROTEAE 

 Genus : Proteus 



Proteus alve icola Serbinow 



Insect concerned: The honey bee, Apis mellifera . 



Serbinow (1915) attributed the cause of infectious 

 diarrhoea of silkworms to be due to Proteus alve icola and 

 Bacterium coli apium . Both organisms were infectious for 

 mice by peritoneal inoculation. 



Serbinow, I. L. 1915 J* Microbiol. Petrograd, 2, 19. 



Proteus bombyc i s Bergey et al. 

 (See Aerobacter bombyc is . ) 



Called Aerobacter bombycis in third and fourth editions 

 of the Bergey Manual, though the fifth edition, 1939 , 

 p. ^36, uses the name Proteus bombycis . 



