Und erstepomt J onrnal of Tl eterinary_ Stience and Animal Industry, l"olwne 0, ~V~rmber 1, July, 1935.
The Transmission of Spirochaeta T he il eri to a Blesbuc k (Damaliscus A lbifrons).
B:y \V. 0. :1\ElTZ, B.Y.Sc., Yeterimu-y Research Officer, On c1PrsiPpoort
TuE pr~,;euce of spiroehaetes in antelopes ,,·as fir.~t <lescr.iherl by Druce anrl his co-workers in a bu,;hhuck (Ttagelaphl!s sctijltus) in Uganda (1911). 'J'oclrl an c1 \V olbac·h (1912) recorded the preseme of spiro- chartes in a roan antelope (HizJpotra.gus Pq1rinvs) in the Gamhin.
Spirochaetes were also found by Scln,·etz and Collart (1929) in blood smears of an antelope (Colms Tanloni) iu the Belgian Congo.
Dodd (190G) came to the condusion that tl1e blood spirochaetes founcl in hm<"ie~ and shet>p <HP irleutical ''"ith Sp. theileti of cattle.
ln o:rcler to a,.;certain \l·hether ante.lopes are ~llci<"eptihle to Sp.
theileri a splenectomized blesbuck which had lwen experimentally infected with Ana:plasma 'marginale \Y>h utilized. Bloorl smears from this animal had been examine!l daily for a period of nine months and apart from A .. marginale uo other bloorl parasites were obserYed.
Blood from a co\\· in '' hich Sp. tltcil cri coul(l be dem.onstratecl nticroscopically was .injected subcutaneously into this hlesbuck. From the 0th to the 13th (la~· after injection n fair uumher of spirochaetes identical with Sp. theilen: could he demonstrated. The animal clid Hot sho"· any ill effects as result o£ the infection.
Co11dusion.- I t \Yas possible io infect the bles1mck with Sp,iro- chaeta theilcri from cattle.
LITERA'rURE.
BRl"CE, D.: HAMERTOK, ..\.. ]<J.: BA'l'Ei\L\.N, H. R.; MACKIE, F. P.; LADY BRUCE (1911). The Occurrence of a Spiroclmt>te in the Blood of an African Antelope. Uep. Sleep. Sickness Connn. Roy. Soc., Vol.
11. p. 184.
SCH\VETZ, I., AND COLLc\.HT, A. (1929). Kates-Protozoologiques SpiTochetes
sangt~ico&es chez Cobtts 'Wnloni ct Gonderia mutans chez Oobtts ell-ipsr- primnus et ches Ow'elio hastata.. Bulletin, rk la Societe de Patholoaue
J<Jxotiqt~e, Vol. 22, Xo. 8, p, 6151.
TODD, T. J~., AND vVOLBACH, 8. B. (1912). Parasitic Protozoa hom the G:nnbia. Jottrn. Jlcd. ltes., Vol. 26, p. 195.
