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A Diphtheria-Like Bacillus Causing Cellulitis in the Region of a Spontaneous Fracture in a Case of Tabes Dorsalis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

Leonard S. Dudgeon
Affiliation:
Bacteriologist to St Thomas's Hospital, Joint Lecturer on Pathology in the Medical School
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The interest of this case is due to the fact that the patient from whom this bacillus was isolated was a tabetic in whom a spontaneous fracture of his femur had occurred, and cellulitis developed at the level of the lesion due to a diphtheria-like bacillus. This organism was isolated and obtained in pure culture from the cellulitis and was found present in the films of the pus; also the patient's serum gave a complement fixation reaction with his own bacillus and for syphilis.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1911

References

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