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It will be seen from the Table II that:
After 1.0 mg. S/c. guinea pigs survived for
89/71 days, mean 51 days.
After 0.1 mg. S/c guinea pigs survived for
32 91 days, mean 57 days.
After 0.1 mg. I/v rabbits survived for 21-52
days, mean 31 days.
After 0.01 mg. rabbits survived for 22-56
days, mean 87 days.
After 5.0 mg. S/c rabbits survived for 50-125
32-81 days, mean 57 days.
Fowls inoculated intravenously with 0.1 and
0.01 mg. of culture showed no evidence of
tuberculosis when examined six months later.
Thus, the results of pathogenicity, and cul-
tural tests indicate that all these 13 strains are
of bovine type and that second and third genera-
tion cultures of standard virulence.
SUMMARY
The available literature on tuberculosis in
buffaloes is reviewed.
Examination of 500 buffaloes slaughtered in
three abattoirs in the United Provinces, Bombay
and Bengal yielded 25 cases of tuberculosis.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis was isolated from
13 of these. Cultural and biological studies
showed them to be of the bovine type and the
virulence was standard only after the strains had
been cultured.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My thanks are due to Dr. F. C. Minett for
suggestions on this work and help in preparing
the draft. Thanks are also due to Mr. Lakshmi
Sahai, M.Sc., M.R.C.V.S. for help in cultural
examinations.
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SOME OBSERVATIONS ON 'WAH' OF GOATS AND SHEEP IN SIND
By H. S. BAWA, M.R.C.V.S., Veterinary Investigation Officer, Sind, Karachi
(Received for publication on 21 September 1943)
(With Plate XI)
THE disease known as Wah occurs in certain
districts of Sind, viz. Nawabshah, Tharparkar,
Sukkur, Hyderabad and Dadu.
The local name Wah means in Sindhi rheuma-
tism, i.e. a painful swelling of the joints. The
disease occurs throughout the year, but its
incidence seems to be more common during the
month of February. Some herdsmen believe that
the new shoots of grass arriving with the onset of
the summer and winter rains are the aetiological
factor, especially when they are grazed on with the
morning dew on them. Mortality varies in
different outbreaks from 10 to 30 per cent.
The condition was first noticed in Nawabshah
in 1937 both in adults as well as kids, and a three-
day old affected kid was purchased for pathological
study, which constituted the start of it
investigation.
The clinical picture, course and morbid anatomy
will be described briefly.
SYMPTOMS
They are both systemic and local and are well
marked so that the shepherd is quick in recogniz-
ing them. It is usually a chronic disease, but
when acute, there is a sharp rise of temperature
and a total or partial arrest of milk secretion,
followed by great debility and death before any
local lesions develop.
The acute form of the disease is rarely seen,
while the sub-acute form with local lesions is
what generally met with. In sub-acute cases