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a granular precipitate on the walls of the tube but no pellicle, flocculent sedi- 

 ment. On malt extract, a ring but no pellicle. Glucose and fructose fermented 

 after 3 days; acid produced with inulin, maltose, sucrose, lactose, and gal- 

 actose. No action on milk or gelatin. 



Candida Krusei (Castellani) Basgal, Contr. Estudo Blastomycoses Pul- 

 monares 50, 1931, 



Saccharomyces Krusei Castellani, Philippine Jour. Sci. B 5: 197-203, 1910. 



Endomyces parairopicalis B Castellani, Centralbl. Bakt. I, 58: 236-238, 

 1911. 



Endomyces Krusei Castellani, Brit. Med. Jour. 2: 1208-1212, 1912; Arch, 

 de Parasitol. 16: 184-186, 1913. 



Moiiilia Krusei Castellani & Chalmers, Man. Trop. Med. ed. 2, 826, 1913. 



Mycelohlastanon Krusei Ota, Jap. Jour. Derm. Urol. 28: [4], 1928. 



Geotrichoides Krusei Langeron & Talice, Ann. Parasitol. Hum. Comp. 10: 

 67, 1932. 



fMycoderma Krusei Stovall & Bubolz, Jour. Infect. Dis. 50 : 73-88, 3 figs., 

 1932. 



Geotrichoides tumefaciens Talice & Mackinnon, Reunion Soc. Argentina 

 Patol. Reg. Norte 8: 162, 1933. 



Found in sputum of a convict suffering from a severe cough, other symp- 

 toms obscure. Case under observation for two months. Monilia iropicalis also 

 present. Castellani also reports this organism in a case of urethritis with 

 yellow discharge in a Serbian officer. 



On glucose agar, very thick growth (Fig. 48). On other agars, delicate, 

 whitish growth. On serum, white growth. Broth and other liquid media re- 

 main clear with pellicle of variable thickness and light sediment. Glucose 

 and fructose litmus broth fermented and acid produced, no change with other 

 sugars. No acidification or coagulation of milk. Coagulated serum not liquefied. 



Gram-positive. Creamy white, dull surface. Cells oval. — ^Zepponi (1931). 



Candida bethaliensis (Pijper) Dodge, n. comb. 



Monilia sp. Pijper, Med. Jour. S. Africa 12: 129-130, 1917. 



Monilia dethaliensis Pijper in Castellani & Chalmers, Man. Trop. Med. ed. 

 3, 1091, 1919. 



MyceloMastanon hethaliense Ota, Jap. Jour. Derm. Urol. 28: [4], 1928. 



Isolated from sputum of patient suffering from cough, periods of fever- 

 ishness, bronchitis, hyperleueocytosis. Sputum whitish yellow. No tubercle 

 bacilli found. Vaccine treatment improved but did not cure cough. Inocula- 

 tion to rabbit proved fatal in 48 hours. Hemorrhages in lungs. Organism 

 not recovered. 



Cells 0.75-1.5ju in diameter. Septate hyphae up to 80/x, in length. 



On Sabouraud agar, growth in a uniform whitish layer with yellow tinge. 

 No filament formation. On potato, growth slightly verrucose and yellower, 

 with filament formation. In gelatin, a fir-tree arborescence formed. Sedi- 

 ment forms in broth, liquid remaining clear. Acid formation and fermenta- 

 tion of maltose and glucose, acid only with sucrose, no action with lactose, 

 dextrin, or mannite. 



