Experimental Arthritis in Albino Rats Produced by a Strain of Corynebacterium

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Abstract
An organism resembling C. kutscheri was isolated from a subcut. abscess and from throat cultures of white mice and also from the pus in lung abscesses of uninoculated white rats. Intraven. and intraperit. infection of white mice with this bacillus produced a disease referred to by earlier workers as pseudo-tuberculosis. The organism is pathogenic for white rats when injd. intraven. or intraperit. By the former route a disease is produced with polyarthritis as one of the prominent features. The exptl. infection of white rats with similar organisms has not previously been described.