. Journal of agricultural research . ve pathological changes and the chroniccharacter of the lesions exhibited by three of the five bulls where abortusinfection was demonstrated suggest that it may be unwise to assume thatlong-standing cases of infection never exist. 246 Journal of Agricultural Research voi. xvii, no. s CONCLUSIONS Bad. abortus infection may involve organs of the generative apparatusof bulls, producing chronic inflammatory changes. Of the generative organs, the seminal vesicles appear to furnish themost favorable site for the lodgment and propagation of abortioninfection. The


. Journal of agricultural research . ve pathological changes and the chroniccharacter of the lesions exhibited by three of the five bulls where abortusinfection was demonstrated suggest that it may be unwise to assume thatlong-standing cases of infection never exist. 246 Journal of Agricultural Research voi. xvii, no. s CONCLUSIONS Bad. abortus infection may involve organs of the generative apparatusof bulls, producing chronic inflammatory changes. Of the generative organs, the seminal vesicles appear to furnish themost favorable site for the lodgment and propagation of abortioninfection. The presence of Bad. abortus infection in bulls appears to be morestrongly indicated by relatively marked than by slight reactions to theagglutination test for this disease. PLATE 22 Photograph of normal and diseased seminal vesicles of bull 98, showing themarked increase in size and the gross pathological changes of one of the organs. Bacterium abortus Infection of Bulls Plate 22 ??««k.«r I i-^ \ •!<-* «r% /f- U 14 -t^^ l^. r ;/


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