Experimental Tonsillophilus suis granuloma in rats and guinea pigs.

Rats and guinea pigs were experimentally infected by intradermal and intraperitoneal inoculation of T. suis. These animals were observed for pathologic changes at various stages. Macroscopic observation disclosed visible grayish white soft nodules at the injection site in those inoculated intradermally and many grayish white nodules in the peritoneum of those inoculated intraperitoneally. Histopathological examination revealed the presence of characteristic microbial elements in the centre of the lesions. Various stages of the lesions were recognized; the early stage being abscess, the advanced stage being pus-forming granuloma and the final stage being residual granuloma. The microbial elements were composed of spores, thalli and multilocular tubers. Clubs were formed around microbial elements in rats inoculated intradermally and in guinea pigs inoculated intraperitoneally. The characteristic T. suis lesions in pigs were reproduced by experimental infection of this organisms in rats and guinea pigs, and thus the pathogenicity of T. suis was confirmed.

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