Septicemia Due toProteus vulgaris
- 5 February 1948
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 238 (6) , 185-187
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm194802052380605
Abstract
THE term Proteus vulgaris (Bacillus proteus) refers to a number of different species of a gram-negative, actively motile rod form originally described in 1895.1 These organisms characteristically exhibit the "swarming" phenomenon in colonies on agar. They are widely distributed in contaminated soil and sewage and are found on the skin, in the urine and in the mouth.2 The Proteus organism was at first thought to be nonpathogenic, but Larson and Bell3 established its pathogenicity for rabbits, rats and guinea pigs in 1915. It has since been implicated in a large number of pathologic states, though its usual status is that . . .Keywords
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