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XXXIV. Resolving (Chronic) Plague in Rats

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

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1. The abscesses in the viscera, especially the spleen, and in the peripheral lymphatic glands, some of which contain living plague bacilli, which have been previously described as “chronic plague in rats” are shown to be plague lesions in the process of healing. The name “resolving plague” is more appropriate.

2. These lesions are found most frequently towards the close of, and immediately after, the acute plague epidemic.

3. They have been found frequently in rats in Belgaum and Poona, and a re-examination of Bombay rats shows that they also occur there. We had previously only found them in the Punjab villages.

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Research Article
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Journal of Hygiene , Volume 10 , Issue 3: Extra “Plague Number” , November 1910 , pp. 335 - 348
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1910

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1 The term resolving plague could without doubt be correctly applied to certain other rats which, if a microscopical histological examination had been made, would leave no option but to conclude that they were recovering from acute plague although the evidence might have shown that they had died from the disease. Such rats which had just passed out of the acute phase of the disease have been excluded from our present category.