A Case of Brucella Abortus Infection

Abstract

BRUCELLA ABORTUS INFECTION.

The Significance of Brucellar Agglutinins in Human Sera

“…Of the remaining 62 women, 15 gave histories of one or more abortions or miscarriages. The sera of all but 3 of these 15 were negative to the Wassermann reaction but no complement fixation tests with polyvalent brucellar antigens were carried out with these sera (see Williams and Kolmer, 1917). Whitehouse (1929) considered that the abortion of the wife of a farmer whose stock was infected was definitely due to a brucella.…”

“…abortus were negative to the Wassermann test; 53 gave a positive or doubtful reaction, and the remaining serum absorbed complement in the absence of antigen. The latter consisted of an alcoholic extract of sheep's heart to which cholesterol had been added (see Williams and Kolmer, 1917).…”