Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Bang's Disease (Infectious Abortion)
In 1886, David Bruce, a surgeon in the British army, isolated the specific germ from a fatal case of the disease in man and called the microbe Micmac-acne melitensis. It is now called, after Bruce, Brucella melitensis. The British Medi terranean Fever Commission established the relationship of the disease in goats to that in man. The disease in goats is characterized by a high percentage of abor tions with the production of carriers and organisms in the milk such as occur in cattle affected with Bang's disease. Malta. Fever in goats is probably impor tant at present only in the States of Arizona, Texas, and New Mexico.
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