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The Australian Epidemic, 1914

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

A. B. Green
A. B. Green
Affiliation:
Bacteriologist-in-Charge, Calf Vaccine Department, Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine.
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(1) Inoculation of pathologically active crusts on guinea-pigs caused no reaction, and in this respect a marked difference was demonstrated clinically between the disease of which the crusts were a product, and vaccinia.

(2) On calves the disease tended to show some vaccino-variolal relationship, from the appearance of its vesicles, but it appeared to be distinct on the one hand from vaccinia, and from variola on the other.

(3) Calf experiments, two only in number, suggested that vaccinia and variola failed to protect against Australian disease, and that Australian disease failed to protect against vaccinia or variola.

(4) On monkeys the vesicles of Australian disease were undistinguishable in appearance from those of vaccinia or variola, but the evidence for immunity relationship between Australian disease and vaccinia and variola was of the slightest; Australian disease affording no protection against vaccinia or variola, vaccinia possibly protecting against Australian disease in 25 per cent, of the cases, and variola possibly protecting against Australian disease in 40 per cent, of the cases. Vaccinia protected against variola in 100 per cent, of the cases, and variola against vaccinia in 50 per cent, of the cases.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , September 1916 , pp. 315 - 333
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1916

References

page 315 note 1 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, Section of Epidemiology and State Medicine, vol. VIII. No. 2, p. 1.Google Scholar

page 315 note 2 Ibid. p. 19.

page 316 note 1 Green, , Journal of Hygiene, 1914.Google Scholar

page note 1 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, Section of Epidemiology and State Medicine, Vol. VIII. No. 2, p. 1.Google Scholar