“…In much of the literature on these bacteria no distinction has been made between them. In the years following the first descriptions of this particular type of conjunctivitis and of the diplobacilli, a large number of reports on the occurrence of the disease were made from all over the world (2,3,7,9,21,34,41,85,138,142,144,147,149,150,158,183,194,195,206,253,257,259,277,284,315,316,339,340,342,344,346,347,348,378,384,385,387,388,390,396,397,406,410,413,423,424,425,426,…”