ASPERGILLACEAE 635 



Var. minimus Sartory, Bull. Acad. Med. Paris, III, 82: 304, 305, 1919. 



Isolated from the sputum of a tuberculous suspect. Pathogenic to rabbit 

 and guinea pig. 



Mycelial hyphae 2-3/x in diameter, forming a close felt. Conidiophores 

 erect, slightly tortuous, 100-150/* long by 4-5/1, in diameter, near base (gradu- 

 ally enlarging upward), fuliginous gray at the base, deepening in color to- 

 ward the head, vesicle spherical, 20-25/i in diameter, covered in upper half or 

 two-thirds by phialides 5-8/i long. Conidia spherical, rarely ellipsoid, 2-3/x in 

 diameter, bronzed. No perithecia found on any media tried. Growth good 

 at 37° and ceases at 42° C. 



Organism has been grown on starch paste agar, Raulin's agar, gelatin, 

 Raulin's sucrose, glucose, maltose, and lactose media. Sucrose is inverted. 

 Neither glucose, maltose, nor lactose is fermented. Starch liquefied with 

 reducing sugars present by the fifth day. Egg albumen unchanged. Milk 

 coagulated on tenth day, transformed to an opalescent liquid. Gelatin lique- 

 fied in 8 days (color 373, Code des Couleurs). 



Asperg^lus tunetaneus (Langeron) Dodge, n. comb. 



Sterigmatocystis tunetana Langeron, Bull. Soc. Path. Exot. 17: 345-347, 

 1 fig., 1924; Blanc & Caillou [case history only], Bull. Soc. Path. Exot. 17: 

 343-345, 1924. 



Isolated from tumors between the third and fourth metacarpals on the 

 left hand of a native of Tunis. Tumors removed surgically. Animal inocula- 

 tions negative. 



Conidiophores simple, 200/x high by 2.5-4/a in diameter, not septate except 

 in old cultures. Vesicle hemispheric above, obconic tapering below, varying 

 with age from 5-10/x in diameter, the average being 7-8/x. Primary phialides 

 short, oblong to inverted conical, 6-8 x 2.5-3. 5/i. Secondary phialides ampul- 

 liform with more or less elongated beak, in groups of two to three, measuring 

 7-8.5 X 3-3.5/1. Conidia spherical, minutely verrucose, 3-3.5/1 in diameter, in 

 long chains, greenish under the lens, deep blue green in mass (390-395, Code 

 des Couleurs) and remaining so even after the mycelium is red. Optimum 

 temperature 25°-30°, growth weak at 37° C. 



Colonies white, then green blue (368, Code, later 390-395), later orange 

 (121, Code, ochraceus 29 of Chromotaxia) finally becoming orange (113, Code, 

 fulvus 32 of Chromotaxia) . 



Asperg^illus Brodeni (Mattlet) Dodge, n. comb. 



Sterigmatocystis Brodeni Mattlet, Ann. Soc. Beige Med. Trop. 6: 31. 1926. 

 Sterigmatocystis cas I, II, IV Mattlet, Ann. Soc. Beige Med. Trop. 4: 3: 

 167-176, 3 figs., 1924. 



Isolated from bronchomycoses with abundant sputum containing spores 

 and later some filaments of Aspergillus, no trace of Mycohacterium tuberculosis 

 either in smears or guinea pig inoculation. First case fatal (refused medica- 

 tion), the second, a prisoner, partially recovered and disappeared, the third 

 case apparently cured by KI. 



