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obtained cultures of the organism on blood agar and, employing 

 these cultures as an antigen, they demonstrated an antibody 

 in the blood of patients by means of the complement-fixation 



Fig. 126. — The Morax-Axenfeld bacillus in the exudate of conjunctivitis. (Front 

 McFarland after Rymowitsch and Matschinsky.) 



est. Klimenko^ has further succeeded in producing a chronic 

 catarrh of the respiratory passages in monkeys and puppies by 



Pig. 127. — Koch- Weeks bacillus in muco-pus from conjunctivitis . Xiooo. (From 

 Park and Williams after Weeks.) 



applying pure cultures to the tracheal mucosa. The bacillus 

 is a minute rod, motionless, stained with moderate difficulty, 

 '■■Centralbl. f. Bakt. Orig., 1909, Bd. XL VIII, S. 64-76. 



