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Glanders 



Immunity. — ^Leo has pointed out that white rats, which are im- 

 mune to the disease, may be made susceptible by feeding with 

 phloridzin and causing glycosuria. 



Babes has asserted that the injection of mallein into susceptible 

 animals will immunize them against glanders. Some observers 

 claim to have seen good therapeutic results follow the repeated in- 



Fig. 291. — Lesions of glanders in the nasal septum of a horse (Mohler and 

 Eichhorn, in Twenty-seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Animal Industry, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1910). 



jection of mallein in small doses. Others, as Chenot and Picq,* 

 find blood-serum from immune animals like the ox to be curative 

 when injected into guinea-pigs infected with glanders. 



Pseudo -glanders Bacillus. — ■Bacilli similar to the glanders bacillus 

 in tinctorial and cultural peculiarities, but not pathogenic for mice, 

 guinea-pigs, or rabbits, have been isolated by Babes, f and by Selter,t 

 and called the pseudo-glanders bacillus. 



* " Compte-rendu de la Soc. de Biol.," March 26, 1892. 

 t "Archiv de med. exp. et d'anat. path.," 1891. 

 i"Centralbl. f. Bakt.," etc., Feb. 18, 1902, xxxv, 5, p. 529. 



