Um festzustellen, wie die Pararauschbrandstämme sich agglutinatorisch verhalten, führten die Verfasser genaue Untersuchungen ein. Es handelte sich dabei um 27 Stämme, die in letzten 2 Jahren aus den verschiedenen Tiermaterialien (Rind, Pferd, Schaf, Schwein und Kaninchen) gezüchtet und morphologisch sowie kulturell als echter Bacillus oedematis maligni angesehen wurden.
Nach der gekreuzten Agglutination ist erwiesen, dass diese 27 Stämme in 3 Typen scharf eingeteilt wurden. Der erste Typus umfasst nämlich 11 Stämme, der zweite 15 und der dritte 1 Stamm. Aber diese 3 Typen können natürlich nicht alle Typen der Pararauschbrandbazillen repräsentieren, die in der Natur vorkommen. Man muss also noch möglichst viele Typen zu finden suchen und bei der Identifizierung von Pararauschbrandbacillus durch Agglutination notwendigerweise polyvalentes Serum anwenden.
Was die gegenseitige Schützkraft von einzelnen Typen anbelangt, so verhielten sie sich fast einheitlich.

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In Mongolia and Manchuria, the rinderpest prevails among cattle, from time to time occurring here and there and spreading over epizootically. This led us to suppose that there may be a connection between the disease and the natural environment.
It is a fact well-recognized in Mongolia that the rodent called "tarabagan" exists infrequently as the carrier of human pest and occasionally it becomes the cause for the outbreak of this terrible epidemic. Such an analogy led us to doubt that Citellus mongolicus ramosus Thos., the suslik most widely distributed in Mongolia and Manchuria, is the carrier of rinderpest-virus.
In 1927 we tentatively inoculated a suslik subcutaneously with 2.0c.c. of the blood of rinderpest calf (No. 56). The animal thus treated showed a rise of temperature and died 7 days after inoculation. The post-mortem examination revealed hemorrhages and ulcers on the mucous membrane of its stomach as well as the dilated gall-bladder filled with dark-blue gall. Five days later the emulsion (1:10) of its lung and spleen, 20c.c. and 15c.c. respectively, was subcutaneously introduced into an aboriginal calf. The latter contracted the typical infection of rinderpest and died after 10 days (Temperature Chart I).
Eucouraged by the result stated above, in 1928 we tried the passage of virus through susliks and carried it on up to the 24th generation (Temperature Charts of Susliks), after every several passages the infection of susliks used for experiment being tested by the inoculation of their materials into calves (Temperature Charts II-VIII). Here it is worthy to note that, as the passage goes on, the number of individuals showing no fever out of inoculated susliks increase and after the 5th generation such a tendency becomes especially conspicuous. If materials from susliks apparently resisting inoculation are injected into calves, however, thus treated calves always succumb to the typical infection. And when the blood and spleen from susliks of the 24th passages were inoculated into 2 calves, both contracted the decided infection of rinderpest (Temperature Charts VII & VIII).
From the foregoing experiments, it may be concluded that the suslik, as the ruminant and swine are, is also susceptible to the rinderpest-virus and occasionally can become the virus-carrier. If such a fact takes place in nature, there may be the outbreak of rinderpest due to the suslik as virus-carrier in Mongolia and Manchuria.

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1. Zur Uebersicht mögen die Haupteigenschaften der untersuchten Streptokokkenstämme in nachfolgender Tabelle zusammengefasst sein:
2. Der Drusestreptococcus unterscheidet sick von den anderen Eiterstreptokokken der Pferde in mebreren Punkten, nämlich morphologisch, bei der Zuckervergärung und bezüglich der Tierpathogenität.
3. Der vom Autor vorläufig genannte Pyogenes A- Streptococcus der Pferde ist die häufigste Ursache der gewöhnlichen Abszesse und der eitrigen Entzündung der verschiedenen Organe, Nase, Schlundkopf, Kehlkopf, Lunge, Fohlengelenk, Fohlennabel, Euter und Genitalorgane der Stute. Dieser Coccus kann auch im Tierkörper namentlich in der Nasenhöhle saprophytisch gefunden werden.
4. Der Pyogenes B- Streptococcus ist die seltene Ursache der Eiterung der Pferde und kann zuweilen auch als Saprophyten aus normaler Nasenhöhle gezüchtet werden.
5. Der Autor konnte aus Materialien zahlreicher gesunder und kranker Pferde (etwa 250 Individuen) als hämolytische Streptococci die obengenannten 3 Arten isolieren und identifizieren.
Zum Schlusse spreche ich meinen hochverehrten Lehrer, Herrn Prof. Dr. K. Kasai, für seine jederzeit freundliche Belehrung und Unterstützung meinen besten Dank aus. Den Herren Prof. Dr. Y. Nakamura, Ch. Kohanawa und R. Kurosawa bin ich für die freundliche Erlaubnis, das Material für diese Streptokokken benutzen zu dürfen, zu grossem Danke verpflichtet.

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For cultivation Sabouraud's and Plaut's media were used, but growth of the fungi was found to be very scanty on both media.
They best developed on the serum agar, their first appearance being white moss-like but later of the size of one-sen copper coin with radiating folds and central elevation, having an inclination almost exclusively to deep growth.
On gelatin they formed a deposit, were mealy looking and the medium was liquified in the course of 2 months.
On potetoes the growth were found to be perpendicularly raised from the culture. They appeared to be bunched, grayish-white in colour and afterward became grayish-yellow.
The multiplication of the fungi in the culture took place as in the case of Trichophyton fungus, viz. conidien, chlamydospores or sporangium, spindle spores were observed.
From this experiment, it may be said that the fungi are morphologically similar to the Trichophyton fungus, but from the cultural and pathogenic point of view it has a similarity to the favus fungi.
For this reason, I believe that the causal organism of this disease is identical with what is termed as Trichophyton faviform album.

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