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ACTINOMYCETEAE 725 



On gelatin, colony silvery white, center deprfssed, velvety, liquefying the 

 gelatin slowly. On potato, colonies white, chalky, earthy odor, potato black- 

 ening. On milk, coconut milk, and broth, yellow solid pellicle (tube can be 

 inverted without flow) milk digested (?). 



Yery resistant to heat, resisting 6 discontinuous sterilizations at 100° C, 

 grows in T"r boric acid. 



Actinomyces roseus Xamyslowski, Centralbl. I>akl. 1, 62: 564-;')68, 1912. 



Ac fi 7107711) ces sp. Lciwenstein, Klin. Monatsbl. Augenheilk. N. F. 10: 203- 

 207, 4 figs., 1910. Not Nocat'dia 7-osea Chalmers & ('hristopherson, Ann. Trop. 

 Med. Parasitol. 10: 270, 191 (i. which is .1. roseus Krainsky, Centralbl. Bakt. 

 IT. 41: 649, 1914. 



Ilyphae 6-8;a, richly septate, branched. 



Colonies on agar and potato, chalky white; on gl\'cerol agar, delicate rose. 

 Colonies cerebriform and chalky white on gelatin. In broth no turbidity. 

 Growth on lactose litmus the same as on sugar. All colonies have musty odor. 

 No growth on milk or plum decoction, slight growth on egg white Coagulated 

 ox blood serum liquefied after a few days. Gelatin not liquefied. 



Actinomyces candidus Petruschky in Kolle & Wassermann. Handb. Path. 

 ]\Iikroorganismen 2: 832. 



Streytothrix geda7hcnsis IL Petruschky 1898, Froilano de Mello & Pais, Arq. 

 Hig. Pat. Exot. 6: 158, 1918. 



StreptotJwix lathridii Petruschky, 1898. 



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



Discor7iijces candidus Verdun & Mandoul, Precis Parasitol. 754, 1924. 



Found in sputum. 



Aero-anaerobe. Surface of colony on potato vtlvety with chalky efflores- 

 cence. Serum and gelatin liquefied. 



Actinomyces albus (Rossi-Doria) Gasperini in Lehmann & Neumann, 

 Atlas Grundr. Bakt. 2: 383, 1896 excl. syn. 



ActinoTiiyces chTomogenes p. Gasperini, 18. 



St7-eptotlirix Foersteri Gasperini, Ann. Mierogr. 2: 449-474, Ph. 5-7, 1890, 

 non aliorum. 



Streptothrix alba Rossi-Doria, Ann. 1st Ig. Sperim. Univ. Roma N. S. 1: 

 399-438, PI. 8, 1891. 



Oospoi'a Boriae Sauvageau & Radais, Ann. Inst. Pasteur 6: 242-273, 1892. 



Actinomyces hovis albus Gasperini, Centralbl. Bakt. I, 15: 684, 1894. 



Gladotlirix alba Mace, Traite Pratique Bact. ed. 3, 1897. 



Nocai'dia alba Froilano de Mello & St. Antonio Fernandes, Mem. Asiatic 

 Soc. Bengal 7: 105, 1919. 



Reported by Massaglia from a case of tuberculosis, 1904; probably also 

 case I of Chatschaturjan et al. (1933). Animal inoculations gave lesions of 

 pseudotuberculosis. 



Not acid-fast. Aerobe, growing only slightly under anaerobic conditions. 



