RT Journal
A1 SAWYER WA
T1 TUbercle bacilli in the blood
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 1909
FD December 1
VO IV
IS 6
SP 628
OP 638
DO 10.1001/archinte.1909.00050220114005
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1909.00050220114005
AB In February, 1909, Rosenberger1 published his announcement of the finding of tubercle bacilli in the blood of every one of 125 tuberculous patients examined. Previous to that time the prevailing opinion had been that only occasionally in cases of so-called localized tuberculosis2 did bacilli escape into the blood-stream. It had been supposed that in the miliary form alone was the number of organisms sufficient to give any promise of detection, and that even in these cases the search was apt to be futile. The description by Landouzy3 of typho-bacillose, a stage of tuberculosis which precedes the formation of localized lesions and which is supposed by him to be a septicemia, had added interest to this subject.After unsuccessful attempts to confirm Rosenberger's findings in a search of the blood of human beings, I undertook, in conjunction with C. M. Haring, D.V.M., Assistant Professor of Veterinary