QUESTIONS 317 



QUESTIONS. 



1. What are the other names for equine glanders? 



2. What does malleus or morve mean? What "Rotz"? 



3. What animals are naturally susceptible to the disease? What form of 

 glanders is found in cattle ? 



4. What microorganism is the cause of glanders? Who discovered it*? 



5. Where is the disease found? 



6. Give mode of infection and spread of glanders in an infected animal. 



7. What type of lesions are producedun the tissues by the glanders bacillus? 

 (Describe the first effects in detail.) 



8. What are the four anatomical types of glanders lesions in the horse ? 



9. Describe them in detail. 



10. Describe the pathologic changes in pulmonary glanders in the horse. 



11. Discuss glanders infection in man. What other human diseases may it 

 be confounded with? 



12. Describe the morphology and staining properties of the Bacillus mallei. 



13. Describe Loeffler's method of staining glanders bacilli in smears from pus, 

 necrotic material, etc. 



14. How is a pure culture of the glanders bacillus generally obtained ? 



15. Describe its cultural properties. 



16. On what culture medium is the Bacillus mallei growth most character- 

 istic? What are the characteristic features? 



17. Describe the preparation of potatoes as a culture medium for the Bacillus 

 mallei. 



18. WTiat is the pseudomalleus bacillus of Babes? 



19. Discuss the resistance of the glanders bacillus. 



20. Why is the microscopic diagnosis of glanders from simple cover-glass 

 preparations inaccurate ? 



21. Describe Strauss' biologic test for glanders, and state what is found when 

 the test is positive. 



22. What is mallein? Describe its preparation. 



23. Describe in detail the mallein test for glanders. 



24. Describe its result (a) in a horse free from glanders; (6) in an animal suffer- 

 ing from the disease. 



25. Is there any danger in subjecting a horse to the mallein test? 



26. What is an ophthalmo test? What is the value of this test for glanders 

 in horses? 



27. Discuss the principle of the agglutination test in glanders. Describe its 

 steps and the result in healthy and in glanders-sick horses. 



28. Discuss the diagnostic value of the mallein test. 



29. What is the value of mallein as a bacterine or vaccine in the curative 

 treatment of glanders? Is glanders always a progressive and fatal disease? 



30. Name an infection in horses which simulates glanders and in which the 

 bacillus causing it gives a positive reaction in Strauss' biologic test on male 

 guinea-pigs ? 



31. Describe Nocard's Bacillus lymphangitidis ulcerosa and point out par- 

 ticularly the features in which it differs from the Bacillus mallei. 



32. What is Kutscher's pseudoglanders bacillus? How does it affect a male 

 guinea-pig when injected intraperitoneally ? What are the two most important 

 features which differentiate Kutscher's bacillus from the Bacillus mallei? 



