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R B Marshall

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The route of entry of leptospires into the kidney tubule.

To study the migration of Leptospira interrogans serotype pomona through the kidney, conventionally-reared mice aged 2 or 3 weeks were infected intraperitoneally with this organism. Within the first 4 days, the organisms migrated from the capillary lumina to the interstitial tissue and provoked an interstitial oedema. By the 10th day they were seen between the epithelial cells of the proximal convoluted tubules and by the 14th day many were located within tubular lumina. There was no evidence of viable leptospires within the cells of the proximal tubules, though occasionally structures resembling leptospiral fragments inside lysosomes were observed. At no stage during the study were glomerular lesions seen.

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Differential ability of colonial types of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to produce infection cutaneous perforated plastic chambers in guinea-pigs and rabbits.

Perforated plastic chambers implanted subcutaneously in guinea-pigs and rabbits became encapsulated and filled with sterile transudate. When these chambers in guinea-pigs were inoculated with various strans of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, persistent infections were achieved without the use of anti-inflammation agents and in the presence of a substantial predominantly polymorphonuclear inflammatory response. Two strains with small colonies similar to types 1 and 2, and one strain with large colonies similar to type 4 of Kellogg et al. (1963 and 1968), showed differences in infectivity comparable with those that might be expected in man, and passage through guinea-pig chambers increased this infectivity. Rabbit chambers could not be infected without the use of an anti-inflammation drug (betamethasone), and differences in infectivity between strains were not as clear cut. The growth of N. gonorrhoeae in chambers in the guinea-pig provides a convenient model system for studying some aspects of the pathogenicity of this organism.

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Identical twins.

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