THERAPEUTIC USE OF BACILLUS PRODIGIOSUS IN THE USSR

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• Publication Date: December 3, 1952
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COUNTRY ~gR
SUBJECT Scientific - Medicine, aatibietics
HOW Military _ BW
PUBLISHED Monthly periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED Moscov
DATE
PUBLISHED Jun 1952
LANGUAGE Russian
DATE OF
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Nauka i ybiyn_~ Vol XIX, No 6, 1952, p 34.
THERAPEUTIC USE OF BACILLUS PRODIGIOSUS IN THE USSR
A. M. Bezborodov
marcescen]thaveibeenocoaductediia Russieopsiaces1886B? In mgt yew, ~e Fatia
Gamaleya for the first time investigated thoroughly the properties oP this
microorganism. In 1887, A, D. Pavlovskiy published an article in which he des-
cribed the results of his experiments on using B, prodigiosue to treat the cu-
taneous form of anthrax is rabbits. I:. 1894, N. P. Tishutkin submitted a dis-
sertation in which the action of B. prodigiosue on Achorion [Trichophyto]
Fungi which cause mange was described, Other Russian investigators; including
0. Ling, also studied the properties of B, prodigiosue.
However, the greatest successes in the application of this microorganism
in both human and veterinary medicine were achieved during the Soviet period.
A group directed by Prof B, I. Kurochkin utilized B, prodigiosue for the active
suppression oT Staph, aureus and applied B. prodigiosue in the treatment of open
suppurating wounds. In a liquid nutrient medium, Bacilli prodigiosi kill 2.5
times their quantity of staphylococci within one minute.
D. prodigiosue is also used Por the treatment oP persons who carry diph_
theria bacilli. As a rule, people who have recovered Prom diphtheria remain
carriers of bacilli for a long time. However, the maJority of'diphtheria bacilli
carriers (93.2y6) arc rid of thr causative Factor of this disease entirely within
2 weeks if ~ suspension of B, prodigiosue is dropped into their nose and pharynx,
The pigment of B, prodigiosue, prodigiosin, has a considerable antibiotic
activity, It suppresses Staph, aureus and can be used as an effective remedy,
USSR scientists have investigated B, prodigiosue only Por the purpose of
treating diseases. On the other hand, the Germans, during the occupation of
Paris in World War II, used B, prodigiosue ae a test organism is Paris subways
and at the Place de la Concorde in investigating procedures Por biological war-
fare,
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