A bacterial infection when analysed is seen to be of the nature of an intoxication.
It should also be stated that agglutinins are used up in the process of agglutination, apparently combining with some element of the bacterial structure.
The principle in such treatment by means of vaccines is to stimulate the general production of anti-substances throughout the body, so that these may be carried to the sites of bacterial growth, and aid the destruction of the organisms by means of the cells of the tissues.
Since the bacterial origin of foul brood has been established, the efforts of some bacteriologists have been employed in finding a simple remedy by means of which the disease may be checked in its earliest stages, and in this an appreciable amount of success has been attained.
The bacterial and nitrate concentrations are quite abnormal in almost all the coastal stretches of Bardez taluka.