A disease of rabbits characterised by a large mononuclear leucocytosis, caused by a hitherto undescribed bacillus Bacterium monocytogenes (n.sp.)

摘要: AN important responsibility attached to the breeding of normal laboratory animals for the department of pathology, was the routine autopsies on animals which died. This practice was rewarded by the control it exercised over the quality of the stock and by the interesting diseases it discovered. Foremost amongst these is the disease described in this paper. In May 1924 six cases of rather sudden death in rabbits were observed to present strikingly similar lesions though no direct cause of the evidently acute toxic or infectious condition …