An anaerobic organism associated with “Bone-taint” in beef

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Abstract
1. AClostridium,non-pathogenic to laboratory animals and not producing toxin, but in some ways resemblingCl. oedematiens,was isolated from the hip joint in a case of “bone-taint” in beef.2. It was demonstrated in the synovial fluid, the periosteum, the Haversian canals, the bone marrow of the femur, and in associated muscular and connective tissue and blood vessels.3. Examination of forty hip joints from normal carcases indicated that thirty-eight were sterile, one heavily infected with aStreptococcus,possibly of thefaecalistype, and one with a rod, probably a member of theProteusgroup.