Food poisoning / by Edwin Oakes Jordan.

  • Edwin O. Jordan
Date:
[1917]
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Food poisoning / by Edwin Oakes Jordan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    84/132 page 72
    the causal agent of hog cholera, is very commonly associated with the disease as an accessory or secondary invader, and is frequently found in the internal organs of swine after death. It might be supposed that in regions where hog cholera is prevalent human infections would be more common than in other districts, but this seems not to be the case. No connection has ever been demonstrated between outbreaks of hog cholera— in which B. suipestifer is known to be abundantly distributed—and so-called B. suipestifer infections in man. Suppurative processes in cattle, and especially in calves, have given rise to poisoning from the use of the meat or milk of the infected animals. It has been often demonstrated that bacteria of the enteritidis-suipestifer group are associated with inflammation of the udder in cows and with a variety of septicemic conditions in cattle and other domestic animals as well as with manifestations of intestinal disturbances (“calf diar¬ rhea,” etc.).1 The frequency with which poisoning has occurred through the use of the meat of “emergency- slaughtered” animals has been already mentioned. K. F. Meyer2 has reported an instance of accidental infection in a laboratory worker caused by handling a bottle of sterilized milk that had been artificially contaminated with a pure culture of B. enteritidis for experimental purposes. The strain responsible for the 1 Although not directly connected with the question of food poison¬ ing, it is of interest to note that certain diseases of birds have been traced to infection with members of this group of bacteria. In a few cases, as in several epidemics among parrots in Paris and elsewhere, the infection has been communicated to man by contact.
    No text description is available for this image
    No text description is available for this image
    No text description is available for this image