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The Effect Of Infection With Pasteurella Tularensis On The Metabolism Of White Rats, Gennaro John Miraglia

Doctoral Dissertations

Introduction: Although tularemia is generally considered to be a disease of rodents and of small ground animals, man is an occasional host. The early workers in this field succeeded in isolating and describing the causative organism, and in a relatively short time its nutritional requirements and cultural characteristics were fairly well understood. In slightly more than a decade after Pasteurella tularensis was first isolated (McCoy and Chapin, 1912), both American and Japanese workers had reported on its symptomatology, pathology, and epidemiology.

In more recent years, efforts have been directed to studies of the bacterium itself in an attempt to understand …