Bang's bacillus
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1) Brucella abortus Bang. The causative agent of contagious abortion in cattle and of brucellosis (undulant fever) in human beings. It is also the cause of a skin disturbance affecting veterinaries
2) Fusobacterium necrophorum. The bacillus that causes contagious bovine abortion.
Bibliography
- B. Bang:
Die Aetiologie des seuchenhaften ("infectiösen") Verwerfens.
Zeitschrift für Thiermedicin, 1897: 241-278.
Discovery of Brucella abortus.
We thank Rudolf Kleinert, Bad reichenhall, Germany, for information submitted.
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