Evening star. [volume], May 14, 1948, Page A-13, Image 13

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Electron Microscope Solves
Tough Case of Germ Identity I
By Frank Carey
A»iociat«d Frwi Scicnca Reporter
MINNEAPOLIS,'May 14.-*
Science’s super-sleuth—the electron
microscope—has solved a tricky case
of mistaken Identity Involving two
rascals of the germ world, the society
of American Bacteriologists has been
told.
The powerful “eyes” of the ‘scope
have detected a definite difference
between two organisms that look
exactly alike under an ordinary
microscope—and which have con
fused some investigators.
The organisms are:
1. The germ that causes syphilis.
2. The germ that causes "pinta”—
or “mal de los pint06”—a skin
disease that occurs in Mexico and
Cuba.
Dr. Juan J. Angulo and colleagues
of the university* of Havana, and of
the Squibb Institute for medical
research, New Brunswick, N. J.,
made the report.
They said “pinta” has been re
garded by some investigators as a
clinical form of syphilis found in
the tropics—because of the fact
that germs isolated from a patient
look Just like syphilis germs under
a regular microscope.
Congress Committee
For Inaugural Named
The congressional Joint commit
tee to handle arrangements for in
augural ceremonies at the Capitol
on January 20 has been completed.
House Speaker Martin late yester
day named the three House mem
bers of the joint group to be:
Majority Leader Halleck, Majority
Whip Arends and Minority Whip
McCormack.
Senate members of the committee
previously named are Chairman
Brooks of the Senate Rules and
Administration Committee, Majority
Whip Wherry and Minority Leader
Barkley.
And yet, they declared, there Is
both clinical and experimental
evidence that "pinta* is a distant
disease.
So they obtained a germ from a
Cuban afflicted with pinta—and put
the problem up to the electron
“mike."
They found a number of differ
ences in the appearance of the germ,
as compared with syphilis germs,
•and they said:
“The possibility of using the elec
tron microscope in the differential
diagnosis of syphilis and pinta is
suggested by the present results."
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