BRUCELLOSIS

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There is overwhelming evidence thatBrucella abortusBang is capable of producing a disease in certain individuals not unlike that produced byBrucella melitensisBruce. IfBrucella abortusis highly pathogenic for man, why should not the disease be found in a large number of veterinarians whose occupation necessitates frequent contact with infective material such as aborted fetuses and retained fetal membranes? This has been a moot question for some time and its answer, in the absence of any experimental evidence whatever, has been highly speculative. There is no group of individuals that comes into contact more often with as large a quantity of and as virulentBrucella abortusinfective material as do practicing veterinarians; and if this species ofBrucellais anywhere near as highly pathogenic for man as the other two species of this genus, namely,Brucella suisTraum andBrucella melitensis, we should expect to find as

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