On the bactericidal effect exerted by human blood on certain species of pathogenic micro-organisms and on the antibactericidal effects obtained by the addition to the blood in vitro of dead cultures of micro-organisms in question / by A.E. Wright and F.N. Windsor.

  • Almroth Wright
Date:
[1902?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the bactericidal effect exerted by human blood on certain species of pathogenic micro-organisms and on the antibactericidal effects obtained by the addition to the blood in vitro of dead cultures of micro-organisms in question / by A.E. Wright and F.N. Windsor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    3/36
    ON THE BACTERICIDAL EFFECT EXERTED BY HUMAN BLOOD ON CERTAIN SPECIES OF PATHOGENIC MICRO- ORGANISMS AND ON THE ANTIBACTERICIDAL EFFECTS OBTAINED BY THE ADDITION TO THE BLOOD IN VITRO OF DEAD CULTURES OF MICRO-ORGANISMS IN QUESTION. By 4... WRIGHT, M.D., Professor of Pathology, Army Medical School, Netley ; AND F. N. WINDSOR, B.A., B.Sc., Capt., Indian Medical Service. THE fact that the blood of ordinary laboratory animals exerts a very marked bactericidal effect upon the Bacillus typhosus and the Spirillum cholerae asiaticae, while it exerts little or no effect upon the Staphylo- coccus and Streptococcus pyogenes, has hardly received the attention which it would seem to merit in view of the circumstance that these facts involve the important problem as to whether the blood exerts its bactericidal action upon pathogenic organisms generally, or only upon certain species of such micro-organisms. | We have addressed ourselves to the task of re-investigating this general problem by the aid of the methods of bactericidal estimation which have been elsewhere described by one of us?, conducting our experiments upon human blood, and drawing within the sphere of our observation, not only the micro-organisms particularized above, but also the Micrococcus melitensis of Bruce and the Bacillus pestis. I. Data with regard to the bactericidal power of the blood as affecting the Bacillus typhosus and Spirillum cholerae asvaticae. We may begin by setting forth certain data in connection with the bactericidal power of human blood upon the Bacillus typhosus, and 1 Lancet, June 1, 1901, p. 1532; Proc. Roy. Soc. (this paper is about to appear). Journ. of Hyg. 1 27
    No text description is available for this image
    No text description is available for this image
    No text description is available for this image