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On malt extract, a pellicle produced, liquid turbid and remains so, sediment 

 heavy. Sucrose inverted, g'lucose, mannose, fiiictose, galactose, and sucrose 

 fermented with acid production, acid production in arabinose and maltose. 

 In xylose, rhamnose, mannite, maltose, lactose, and raffinose a pellicle is pro- 

 duced without acidity; in giycerol, sorbite, dulcite, salicin, inulin, and dextrin 

 only a ring is formed. Milk slightly akaline without coagulation or digestion. 

 Gelatin liquefaction slow, becoming complete in 56 days. Anaerobic growth 

 (under olive oil) slight, growth good between 25° and 37° C. 



Pseudomycoderma Mazzae Dodge, n. sp. 



Monilia sp. Mazza & Nino, Bol. Inst. Clin. Quirurg. Univ. Buenos Aires 4: 

 545-558, 15 figs., 1927. 



Isolated from hemoptoic expectorations of a patient suffering with cough 

 and pains in the thorax. Pathog-enic to guinea pig, rat, and mouse, producing 

 generalized infection Avith lesions at a distance from the point of inoculation. 



Filamentous forms present on most media along with abundant yeast 

 cells, few large, spherical, thick-walled cells. Hypliae of variable diameter, 

 about 1.5-2/jL, flexuous, rarely branched. Yeast cells singly or in groups. 

 Hyphae rare on solid media. On carrot glycerol, yeast cells and broad bacilli- 

 form cells. On potato glycerol, abundant yeast cells of small dimensions. 

 Gram stain inconstant, not acid-fast. Growth good at 37° and 20° C. 



On Sabouraud agar, good growth, colony much folded and contorted. 

 Drigalski medium changes color in 24 hours, slight gas in 4 days, then de- 

 colorized. Litmus sucrose agar color change in 24 hours. Neutral red color 

 change in 72 hours. On mannite, lactose, or glucose + litmus agar, color 

 change in 24 hours. In broth, slight pellicle in 24 hours, with uniform tur- 

 bidity and sediment. In acid Raulin solution, slight development, with sediment 

 only. Ferments sucrose, levulose, lactose, arabinose, maltose, mannite, raffinose, 

 slightly galactose, glucose, dulcite, inulin. No indol formation. Growth is 

 strictly aerobic. Coagulated serum not liquefied. Milk coagulation begins in 

 24 hours and is complete in 4 days. Gelatin liquefied, with gas formation. 



Pseudomycoderma Tanakae Dodge, sp. nov. 



Saccharomyces sp. Tanaka, Mitt. Med. Ges, Tokyo 28: 1914; Jour. Path. 

 Bact. 25: 350-355, PI. 18, 1920. 



Found in swollen mesenteric glands in 12 cases of cancer of stomach or 

 intestines. Not pathogenic to mice, guinea pigs, or rabbits. 



Cells ellipsoid to fusiform, 2-6.6 x 1.5-3.7^, yellowish, not easily stain- 

 ing. Spores 1-10/i in diameter, sometimes 16/a. [Spores here described are 

 probably only granules since author states that in rapidly growing cells spores 

 become smaller and very numerous. "Spores" stained by Moeller's and 

 Klein's method.] Optimum temperature for growth 25° C. 



Grown on several different media, colonies vary between yellow and brick 

 red in color. Pigment best developed on potato, less at 37° C, than at room 

 temperature. Fermentation of lactose and glucose. 



Pseudomycoderma fecale Dodge n. sp. 



"Mycoderme" LeDantec, C.R. Soc. Biol. 74: 412-413, 1913 [Gaz. Hebdom. 

 Sci. Med. Bordeaux 34: 83, 1913]. 



