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THE author describes and illustrates a number of curious linear and spherical bodies found in the red corpuscles of animals with foot-and-mouth disease, and works out a life-history for them along the lines familiar from the parasites of malaria. The difficulty in all such investigations is to be sure that the intracellular appearances represent the cause rather than the effect of the disease, and to distinguish between a parasite and some remnant of the nucleus of the erythroblast seems often to be impossible. Sometimes the nuclea remains are plain as such; sometimes by special methods they can be brought to take a basic stain in cells which by ordinary procedures would appear normal; it is quite possible that they may be thus unmasked in consequence of a parasitic illness. What curious objects may be found in red corpuscles is readily appreciated by examining the blood of a dormouse or of a new-born rat. The nail- or tadpole-like bodies shown very clearly in the first photograph are extraordinarily similar to those demonstrated some years ago by Braddon in (or on) the red cells in rinderpest.
Neue Beobachtungen über den Erreger der Maulund Klauenseuche: Die Entwicklung des Schmarotzers im Blut, speziell in den roten Blutkörperchen.
Dr.
Hrch.
Stauffacher
By. Pp. 62 + plates. (Zürich, 1918.) Price 8 francs
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Neue Beobachtungen über den Erreger der Maulund Klauenseuche: Die Entwicklung des Schmarotzers im Blut, speziell in den roten Blutkörperchen . Nature 105, 100 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105100a0
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