By means of the same method as in the inoculation of cl. perfringens into guinea pigs, staphylococcus aureus was inoculated to guineapigs, which showed series of symptoms of local purulent inflammation and fever in general after certain incubated period.
The virulence was prominent in staphylococcus aureus which has moderate activity of hemolysis and of plasmacoagulation and the virulence was rather unremarkable in staph. aureus which has less activity of plasmacoagulation.
The coccus which has no power of plasmacoagulation did not show any activity of provocating symptoms in the animal.
It would be concluded that the activity of plasmacoagulation is in proportion to that of pathogenesis, as previously mentioned by other authors. The author utilized these results as criteria for the evaluation of immunologic effect. There were no remarkable differences between spontaneous healing, cases treated with living or killed bacilli, except cases treated with toxoid. This exhibited slight prohibition of symptoms.
As to the evaluation of the power of antibiotics against the inoculated inflammatory foci, the animals died within a few hours after inoculation of penicillin, without rupture or incision of abscess, even though penicillin was small in amount. The patho-histologic findings were similar to that of experimental anaphylaxis.
It is not clear whether this result has any relationship to penicillin anaphylaxis.
Only the following possibilities would be taken in considaration; i. e., existence of common constituents in penicillin and in staph. aureus; inoxication of unknown substance produced by deterioration of bacteria by penicillin treatment.
If abscess developed into ulcer or fistula or if it was incised, the animal servived notwithstanding the inoculation of penicillin at the same time.
The intervening factors should be separated from each other, in the further study.
It is obvious that the inflammation foci due to staph. aureus, which has resistance against penicillin, will have rather less influence by penicillin.
Experiments of streptomycin performed in the similar manner did not give the above findings.
Experiments utilizing the other kinds of antibiotics will be reported in the future paper.
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