On the question of mute infection in experimental syphilis of rabbits

Abstract

A silent “infection, according to Reiter’y, is one that does not show any clinical symptoms, just like Levinthal’s“ Symptomlose Infektion ”. As you know, about 10% of rabbits experimentally infected with syphilis do not detect, after inoculation by means of pieces of chancre containing millions of spirochetes, no clinical signs of syphilis: there are no primary affects, there are no sufficiently definite infiltrates at the vaccination site, there are no swelling of the glands and secondary phenomena.

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