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Glucose and maltose fermented. 



Gelatin liquefied, no action on gitla(;tot:o, i'loni iungs. ,1/. triadi.i. 



Gelatin not liquefied, acid produced on galactose, from tongue. 



M. aldoi. 



Mycotoruloides arg-entina (Vivoli, Avellaneda & Bardessi) Dodge, n. comb. 



Monilia argentiiia Vivoli, Avellaneda & Bardessi, Reunion Soc. Argentina 

 Patol. Keg. del Norte en Tucuman 7: 239-277, 37 figs., 1932. 



Geotrichoides tumefaciens Talice & Mackinnon p.p., Reunion Soc. Argentina 

 Patol. Reg. del Norte en Santiago del Estero 8: 161, 162, 1933. 



Ulcerous lesions on tongue, complicated by syphilis. Biopsy showed fila- 

 ments 20-60 X 2/A, unbranched, septate. Autopsy showed nodular lesions in 

 lungs. Pathogenic for rats, rabbits, and guinea pigs. 



On Sabouraud agar, yeast cells spherical or ovoid, 4-7yu, in diameter and 

 liyphae unbranched, terminal cell somewhat clavate, septate, up to 60/* blasto- 

 spores polymorphic ; coremia frequent. 



Colonies shining, pasty, not adherent, confluent, margins irregular with 

 fine radiating hyphae. On malt agar, colony slightly granular, yellow. On 

 Pollaeci agar, colony spherical, at first yellowish white, becoming thick, rugose, 

 dry. On potato glycerol, colony thick, grayish white ; on carrot glycerol, 

 colony about 2 mm. thick, white rugose, dull, partly covered by a fine dark 

 brown layer; on beets, white pasty colony which assumes a rose tint. On 

 gelatin, growth good ; on coagulated serum, growth poor ; on both, colony 

 white with some hyphae. In malt extract, or Raulin's liquid, white powdery 

 sediment, no ring or pellicle. On sugar broths, thin white pellicle ; glucose, 

 maltose, and sucrose fermented, slight acidity in fructose, galactose, and lac- 

 tose but at the end of a month all sugar broths have become alkaline. Milk 

 coagulated, gelatin and serum not liquefied. 



Mycotoruloides unguis (Weill & Gaudin) Langeron & Talice, Ann. Para- 

 sitol. Hum. Comp. 10 : 50, 1932. 



Spicaria unguis Weill & Gaudin, Arch. Med. Exp. 28: 461-463, PI. 12, 1919. 



Monilia unguis Vuillemin, Champ. Paras. Ilomme Anim. 85, 1931. 



Found on nails in two cases of onychogi-yposes with splitting of nail into 

 white and yellow layers. 



Mycelium slender, 1.5fi in diameter, septate, sometimes closely entangled 

 and bearing spherical or ovoid blastospores. Mycelium branched, septate with 

 septa 3-6/* apart. Verticillate pyriform buds at level of the septa give rise to 

 verticillate chains of blastospores which are hyaline, rounded, or pyriform, 

 3 X 4-5/x. 



Organism grows on all the usual substrates, best at 37° C. On Sabouraud 

 maltose agar, growth fleshy, white [or yellowish if the maltose is colored], 

 convoluted. On potato, colony humid, grayish, 2-3 mm. thick, chalky on desic- 

 cation. Growth vigorous on carrot. In giant colonies, growth is 10-12 mm. 

 in 10 days, dirty white, brilliant witli densely twisted masses of hyphae about 

 1.5 cm. thick. In Raulin's liquid a scanty white granular sediment appears at 

 the bottom of the tube. 



