ACTINOMYCETEAE 763 



Actinomyces Gruberi Terni, Centralbl. Bakt. 16: 362, 363, 1894. 



INocardia pluricolor Terni, 1894 [fide Chalmers & Christopherson, Ann. 

 Trop. Med. Parasitol. 10: 268, 1916]. 



f Actinomyces pluricolor Gasperini, Centralbl. Bakt. 15: 684, 1894. 



Nocardia gruberi Blanchard in Bouchard, Traite Path. Gen. 2: 855, 1896. 



Nocardia phiricolor Froilano de Mello & St. Antonio Fernandes. Mem. 

 Asiatic Soc. Bengal 7: 110, 1919. 



Brillant red on gelatin. Glycerol necessary for pigment production at 

 20°-30° C, slight metabolism. Pathogenic to guinea pig. 



Streptothrix hominis IV Foulerton, 1906, 1910. 



Isolated in a case of renal infection secondary to pulmonary infection. 



Colonies on agar grayish, gradually darkening. Serum not liquefied. 



Actinomyces Lasserrei (Verdun) Brumpt, Precis. Parasitol. ed. 4, 1206, 

 1927. 



Nocardia sj). Lasserre, Contr. Etude Genre Nocardia These Toulouse, 1904. 



Nocardia Lasserrei Verdun, Precis. Parasitol. 1912 ; Castellani & Chalmers, 

 Man. Trop. Med. ed. 2, 819, 1913. 



Discomyces Lasserei Neveu-Lemaire, Precis Parasitol. Hum. 43, 1921. 



Oospora Lasserei Sartory, Champ. Paras. Homme Anim. 798, 799, 1923. 



Found in ulcer of the pharynx and of upper lip. Pathogenic for rabbit 

 and guinea pig in intracerebral injection. 



Hyphae 0.5-0.75/* in diameter. Claviform formations present. 



Colonies on agar discrete, yellowish, surrounded by a layer of white. On 

 potato, yellow nodules with white snowy efflorescence. 



Actinomyces luteus Brumpt, Precis Parasitol. ed. 4, 1206, 1927. 



Nocardia lutea Christopherson & Archibald, Lancet 2: 847, 1918. 



Found in daeryocystes at Khartoum. 



Streptotlirix madurae Solari, Semana Med. 24: 573-582, 7 iigs., 1917 (non 

 Vincent). 



Isolated from Madura foot with small yellow grains superficial in skin 

 and muscle, not attacking bone, anesthetizing. 



Mycelium septate, without constrictions, brownish drab (similar to fila- 

 ments killed with osmic acid), branched, perpendicular to main hypha. 

 Chlamydospores present, spherical, terminal, often several in a chain. 



On Sabouraud or Sabouraud glucose agar, colonies black, rounded, ele- 

 vated, smooth, not confluent. Surface not umbilicate. Agar blackened. 



Actinomyces odorifer (Rullmann) Lachner-Sandoval, Tiber Strahlenpilze 

 65, 1898. 



Cladothrix odorifera Rullmann, Chem. Bakt. Unters. . . . Inaug. Diss. 

 Miinehen. 47 p.. 1 ph, 1895. 



Streptothrix odorifera Foulerton & Jones, Trans. Path. Soc. London 53: 

 112, 113, 1902. 



Nocardia odorifera Castellani & Chalmers, Man. Trop. Med. ed. 2, 818, 1913. 



Oospora odorifera Sartory, Champ. Paras. Homme Anim. 809, 1923. 



