RT Journal
T1 VIenna
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD January 19
VO 92
IS 3
SP 246
OP 247
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02700290056024
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700290056024
AB Infections with Bacillus Abortus Boum 
    At one of the recent meetings of the Vienna Gesellschaft der Aerzte, Professor Spengler discussed the infection of human beings with Bacillus abortus, or Bang's bacillus, which causes infectious abortion in cattle. The infection is of more frequent occurrence than is generally supposed. This bacillus differs very slightly, morphologically and culturally, from the causative agent of undulant fever, some authors regarding them as identical. The transmission of the Bang bacillus occurs chiefly through the use of unboiled milk, and in Dresden it was found in 32 per cent of all milk specimens examined. The Bang bacillus is sometimes eliminated for many years after an apparent recovery from an infection. German authors have described seven cases of such infections; among others, three in veterinarians. Christensen made researches in 2,000 cases of typhoid, and in eighty-seven cases he found an agglutination of the Bang bacillus. In a