CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF FUSOSPIROCHETAL INFECTIONS

¹ College of Dentistry, University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tenn.

1. Clinical manifestations of fusospirochetal infection have been observed in the sinuses, nose, middle ears, mastoids, fauces, tonsils, pharynx, lungs, and genitalia of man.

2. The fusiform organism was cultured from the blood of a case of fusospirochetal stomatitis associated with a blood dyscrasia, which suggests that there may be some relationship between fusospirochetal infection and certain blood dyscrasias, the anemias and leukemias.

3. The pseudo-membrane characteristic of this infection, with its accompanying lesions, was produced in animals inoculated with cultures of the fusiform organism.

4. The organisms were recovered from the lesions and the blood of the animals, and grown in pure cultures.