The Experimental Transmission of Pinta, Mal del Pinto or Carate to the Rabbit
- 23 March 1945
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 101 (2621) , 309-311
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.101.2621.309
Abstract
The scrotal skins of 4 black rabbits were inoc. intraderm. with saline-diluted, treponema-laden serous fluid expressed from an initial pinta lesion. A papule appeared at the site of injn. in one rabbit on the 105th day. This showed a circular erosion with an indurated base on the 115th day. Fluid expressed from it showed treponemata in the dark field, and these were easily impregnated by the Fontana-Tribon-deau method. A volunteer injd. with fluid from the rabbit''s lesion develpd. a pinta lesion at the injn. site, proving the rabbit''s scrotal lesion was caused by Treponema careteum or T. herrejoni, the causal agent of pinta, mal de pinto or carate.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit: