The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 35, 161-171,
Copyright, 1922, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York
THE TRANSMISSION OF AGGLUTININS OF BACILLUS ABORTUS FROM COW TO CALF IN THE COLOSTRUM
Ralph B. Little V.M.D.1 and
Marion L. Orcutt 1
1 From the Department of Animal Pathology of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Princeton, N. J.
The agglutinins towards Bacillus abortus found in the blood serum of new-born calves are obtained from the mother through the colostrum. Calves at birth, unfed, are without agglutinins. The problem of the production of agglutinins by the fetus in whose tissues Bacillus abortus has multiplied and which is subsequently expelled prematurely is not touched by these observations.
Submitted on September 1, 1921