764 MEDICAL MYCOLOGY 



Actinomyces Pelletieri (Laveran) Briimpt, Precis Parasitol. ed. 4, 1204, 

 1927. 



Micrococcus Pelletieri Laveran, C. K See. Biol. 61: 340, 341, 1906. 



Oospora Pelletieri Thiroux & Pelletier, Bull. Soc. Path. Exot. 5: 588, 1912. 



Nocardia Pelletieri Pinoy, Bull. Soc. Path, Exot. 5: 589, 1912 [said by 

 Chalmers & Christopherson, Ann. Trop. Med. Parasitol. 10: 255, 1916, to be 

 a synonym of Nocardia indica (Kanthack) Castellani & Chalmers {A. madurae) 

 incorrect] . 



Discomyces Pelletieri Neveu-Lemaire, Precis Parasitol. 42, 1921. 



Found by Laveran in tissue of tumor (not a mycetoma) in a negress in 

 Senegal. Not cultivated. Thiroux & Pelletier report a case of mycetoma in 

 the thorax with evidently some of the lung near the lesion infected and an 

 area in the side of thorax. Usual type of mycetoma with red grains similar 

 to A. madurae, but unusual location. Treated externally with iodine, inter- 

 nally with KI, etc. Native thought he was not getting well fast enough and 

 disappeared, balking knowledge of necropsy or cure. 



Cells 0.7/A in diameter. 



On Sabouraud agar, growth slow ; colonies small, cerebriform, coral red, 

 not adhering to the substratum. Mycelium not seen in the tissues, but rather 

 cocciform bodies. 



Differs from A. madurae in the redder color of colonies, growth only on 

 Sabouraud agar, colonies not penetrating the agar and easily detached from 

 it; colonies mucilaginous instead of scaly and dry, in tissues only in micro- 

 coccus form. — Thiroux & Pelletier. 



Actinomyces pseudotuberculosae Brumpt, Precis Parasitol. ed. 4, 1206, 

 1927. 



Case of Flexner, Jour. Exp. Med. 3: 435-450, PI. 41, 1898. 



Actinomyces pulmonalis Burnett, Rept. N. Y. State, Vet. Coll. 10: 167, 

 1909. 



Actinomyces pseudotuberculosis Keller. 



Nocardia pseudotuberculosis Froilano de Mello & Femandes, Mem. Asiatic 

 Soc. Bengal 7: 110, 1919. 



Actinomyces purpureus Cavara, Micosi Occ. 99, 1928. Orloff, Vestnik 

 Ofth. 29: 653, 1912 [rev. Klin. Monatsbl. Augenheilk. 51: 529, 1913]. 



Isolated from lesions of the cornea. Slight virulence for cornea of rabbit, 

 less for dog. 



Hyphae branched, sometimes with terminal swellings. Aerobic. 



When grown on agar or gelatin, this organism imparts purple color to 

 medium. Large spherical colonies in fish broth. When grown on coagulated 

 serum, purple pigment is produced. Same on potato. 



Actinomyces Rog-ersii Brumpt, Precis Parasitol. ed. 4, 1206, 1927. 



Nocardia (Cohnistreptothrix) Rogersi Froilano de Mello, A Med. Contemp. 

 1919. 



