COAGULATION OF BLOOD PLASMA BY PLAGUE AND PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS BACILLI,

摘要

The study shows that the capacity to coagulate plasma is a characteristic feature of plague,but not of pseudotuberculosis,bacillus,since all the strains of pseudotuberculosis causative agent investigated did not evidence,after repeated testing, a capacity to coagulate plasma. The persistent absence of plasmocoagulation and fibrinolytic activity in pseudotuberculosis bacillus suggests that in this case one is dealing with a qualitative distinction between plague and pseudotuberculosis bacilli. Inasmuch as the capacity for plasmocoagulation,as well as fibrinolytic activity,is a feature which denotes a qualitative distinction between plague and pseudotuberculosis bacilli,the plasmocoagulation test can be of significant interest for the differential diagnosis of plague and pseudotuberculosis bacilli.