Spirillum Clinical Manifestations

Spontaneous Infection of Guinea-Pigs with a Spirillum, Presumably Spirillum Minus Carter, 1887

McCluskie (1930), Robertson (1930), Francis (1936), and Knowles, Das Gupta and Sen (1936) have noted the occurrence of Spirillum minus in the naturally-infected mouse, Mus musculus. The last-named workers cited an incident in which a wrong diagnosis of rat-bite fever was established on the basis of discovery of spirilla in a white mouse inoculated with the blood of a patient suffering from prol...

Deoxyribonucleic acid-mediated transformation of Spirillum lipoferum.

The methodology for deoxyribonucleic acid-mediated transformation of Spirillum lipoferum to resistance to various antimicrobial agents is reported.

The nitrogenase system of Spirillum lipoferum.

The nitrogenase system of Spirillum lipoferum was separated into three components, the normal Mo-Fe and Fe proteins as well as an activating factor for the Fe protein. The rate of activation is increased by Mn2+ or by an excess of Mg2+, and the process requires ATP.

Spirillum Minus Infection Acquired from an Indian Squirrel (Sciurus SP.)

A Note on Spirillum Minus (Carter), the Causative Organism of Rat-Bite Fever