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A1 RAVENEL MP, SMITH KW
T1 THe presence of tubercle bacilli in the circulating blood
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD December 4
VO LIII
IS 23
SP 1915
OP 1915
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.92550230039003c
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.92550230039003c
AB It has been known since the early days of bacteriology that tubercle bacilli are occasionally found in the circulating blood of patients suffering with tuberculosis. It is probable that every case of advancing tuberculosis is, at some stage of the disease, a bacteriemia ; at least, there are times during the progress of every case in which tubercle bacilli can be found in the blood. This has been demonstrated by experiments and is also shown by those cases of miliary tuberculosis in which every oigan of the body becomes simultaneously the seat of numerous tubercles.The question was studied experimentally many years ago by Kocarcl, Bang, and others in an attempt to discover whether or not the flesh of animals suffering with tuberculosis was dangerous as food. The experiments carried out at that time showed that tubercle bacilli, although introduced directly into the circulation in large numbers, are in a