Abstract
The trachoma virus is not yet known with certainty to have been grown in tissue culture. The experiments of Rumyantsev and Levkoeva, 1 of Schmidt 2 and of Harrison and Julianelle 3 were unsuccessful. Poleff 4 reported finding in cultures of trachomatous tissues rickettsia-like bodies which he considered to be the causal agent, but he failed to demonstrate infectivity of the cultures by inoculation of the monkey or human conjunctiva. In view of the probable nonspecific nature of these rickettsia-like bodies, which I 5 believe to have been cellular debris, it seems probable that Poleff failed to cultivate the agent. More recently, Rotth, 6 in a report before the Fifteenth International Ophthalmologic Congress at Cairo, Egypt, stated that he had obtained Halberstadter-Prowazek inclusion bodies in a single culture of human fetal conjunctival epithelium inoculated with an Elford filtrate of trachomatous material. Before drawing conclusions as to the value of this
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