CULTIVATION OF SPIROCHÆTES

Fever Associated with Spirochætes in the Blood

Diplomate, Tropical Medicine ; Civil Surgeon, Saugor, C. P. A prisoner, Nai by caste, aged 20, who had been in the jail for three weeks, in perfect health; complained on August 12th of a feeling of coldness and of aching pains in bis limbs; he was admitted into hospital and there went through all the typical symptoms of an acute ague, the cold stage lasted four hours, the hot seven hours, succe...

The Extension of Cultivation

Ricardo after Sraffa In the preface of the Principles (1817), Ricardo states that the main problem of Political Economy concerns the distribution of income among the three classes of society: the capitalists, the workers and the landowners, who receive the profits, the wages and the rents, respectively. When rent is discarded, the trade-off between wages and profits becomes apparent. Nowadays, ...

Cultivation Techniques

Cultivation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

A REPORT by a working party of the Public Health Laboratory Service on the laboratory diagnosis of tuberculosis, reported in the Monthly Bulletin of the Ministry of Health and Public Health Laboratory Service (August, 1952, Vol. 11, p. 187 onwards) and referred to in the Bulletin of Hygiene (September, 1953, 28, 748), lays out the best methods of homogenization of sputa prior to culture on Lowe...

Cultivation of plasmodium spp.

Cultivation of both human and non-human species of Plasmodium spp., the causal agent of malaria, has been a major research success, leading to a greater understanding of the parasite. Efforts at cultivating the organisms in vitro are complicated by the parasites' alternating between a human host and an arthropod vector, each having its own set of physiological, metabolic, and nutritional parame...