ACTINOMYCETEAE 765 



Original reference not seen. Froilano de Mello, in a personal letter dated 

 July 7, 1932, states: "A partially acid-fast Nocardia, which further studies 

 have shown to be a contaminating agent which can easily be taken for B. of 

 Koch when present in short rods." 



Nocardia rubea Chalmers & Christopherson, Ann. Trop. Med. Parasitol. 

 10: 271, 1916, published without description or synonymy. 



Oospora rubra Wilbert, Recueil, Hyg. Med. Vet. Militaire, 1908. 



Actinomyces Somaliensis Brumpt, Precis Parasitol. ed. 4, 1201, 1927. 



Indiella Somaliensis Brumpt, Arch, de Parasitol. 10: 555-562, Fig. 12, 1906. 



Indielopsis Somaliensis Brumpt, Precis Parasitol. ed. 2: 1913. 



Nocardia Somaliensis Chalmers & Christopherson, Ann. Trop. Med. Para- 

 sitol. 10: 255, 1916. 



Streptothrix Somaliensis Miescher, Arch. Derm. Syphilis 124: 297, Pis. 

 20-25, 1917. 



Discomyces Somaliensis Neveu-Lemaire, Precis Parasitol. Hum. 42, 1921. 



Parasitic on man in Somaliland (Bouffard). 



Mycelium very slender when young, 0.5/* in diameter, white with lateral 

 branches with septa rare. Older filaments remain white, but their form is 

 more irregular, often moniliform. Chlamydospores (?) intercalary, 1.5-2.5/i 

 in diameter. Fungus grows radially and the young peripheral parts are 

 separated from the inflamed tissue by a hyaline zone, taking the colors of the 

 background, and probably protoplasmic. In this zone, an Actinomyces is fre- 

 quently found in association. Grains hard, softened with difficulty by the 

 usual reagents. Material cementing hyphae together takes methylene blue 

 as readily as cells, 



Actinomyces urethritidis (Rocek) Brumpt, Precis Parasitol. ed. 4, 1206, 

 1207, 1927. 



Isolated by Rocek in 1920, later by Schwartz & Cancik (1922) from sev- 

 eral cases of prostatitis. 



Actinomyces zur-Neddeni Namyslowski, Centralbl. Bakt. I 62: 564-568, 

 1912. 



Streptothrix sp. zur-Nedden, Klin. Monatsbl. Augenheilk. [N. F. 3:] 45: 

 152-158, 1 fig., 1907. 



Isolated from eyelid and tear duct. Not pathogenic to guinea pig or 

 rabbit. 



Gram-positive. Aerobic. 



No growth on milk, potato, or gelatin. On agar, growth suggests B. 

 xerosis. 



Streptothrix sp. Gauducheau, Bull. Soc. Path. Exot. 3: 488-490, 1910. 



Oospora S2^- Sartory, Champ. Paras. Homme Anim. 807, 808, 1928. 



Found in greenish yellow grains in pseudotuberculosis which was im- 

 proved by medication with KI. 



Rods 0.3 X 4-5^. curved slightly. Gram-positive, not acid-fast. Hyphae 

 present. 



