UNDULANT FEVER

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Abstract
In October, 1927, an epidemiologic study of undulant fever was undertaken in Iowa. As the cases were presumably caused by the abortus strains ofBrucella melitensis—an assumption rapidly becoming an established fact—we planned in the course of the individual investigations to collect all possible clinical data. The ever widening recognition of the disease and the absence of extensive clinical reports of undulant fever as it occurs in areas where goats are scarcely concerned promised to make such a study valuable. The list of cases given here is almost unselected, comprising those investigated prior to December, 1928. Only four so studied were omitted from the analysis, as in two carcinoma was apparently concurrent, and in two the nature of the infection was not established until some months after convalescence. The accepted indication for a personal visit was the finding of a serum agglutination ofB. melitensisin dilutions of 1:80

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