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Genus: Escherichia 



Esc HER I CH I A COL I (Migula) Castellani and Chalmers 

 (See also Bacterium coli and Bacillus coli communis . ) 



Insects concernes : The silkworm, Bombyx mori ; the honey 

 bee, Apis mellifera ; the cockroach, probably Periplaneta 

 orientalis ; the fly, Chrysomyia megacephala ; the German 

 roach, Blattella germanica ; the cecropia moth larva, 

 Platysaini a cecropia ; Pari a cane 11a , var. gilvipes ; the 

 lady "beetle, Coccinella novemnotata ; the cricket, Neomb ius 

 fasciatus var. fasciatus . 



Sawamura (1906) lists Bacillus coli ( Escherichia coli ) 

 as one of the organisms capable of experimentally producing 

 flacherie in silkworms. White (1906) isolated Bacillus 

 coli communis (E. coli ) from the intestinal tract of the 

 honey bee. Longfellow (1915) found that the cockroach 

 carried Bacillus coli communis on its legs. Over 80 per- 

 cent of the Chrysomyia megacephala caught in Peiping were 

 found by Chow (19^0) to be infected with "Bact. coli . " 

 In a survey of the natural bacterial flora of thirty spe- 

 cies of insects, Steinhaus (19^1) isolated Escherichia 

 coli from the alimentary tracts of the German roach, the 

 Cecropia moth larva, the Pari a cane 11a var. gilvipes , the 

 lady beetle, and the cricket. 



A complete description of Escherichia coli may be found 

 in Bergey's Manual (1939? 5th ed. , page 389). 



Chow, C. Y. I9I+0 The common blue-bottle fly, Chrysomyia 

 megacephala , as a carrier of pathogenic baGteria in 

 Peiping, China. Chinese M. J. , 57, 1*1-5-153. 



Longfellow, R. C. 1913 The common house roach as a 

 carrier of disease. Am. J. Public Health, 3, 58-61. 



Sawamura, S. I906 Note on bacteria pathogenic to silk- 

 worm. Tokyo Imp. Univ. Coll. Agri. Bull. , 7, 105- 



Steinhaus, E. A. 19*1-1 A study of the bacteria associated 

 with thirty species of insects. J. Bact, k2, 757-790. 



White, G. F. 1906 The bacteria of the apiary with spe- 

 cial reference to bee diseases. U. S. Dept. Agr. , Bur. 

 Entomol., Tech. Bull. No. 1*+, 50 pp. 



Escher 1 CH 1 A ELL I NGER 1 Bergey et al. 

 (See Coccobacillus ellingeri . ) 



