726 MEDICAL MYCOLOGY 



On maltose peptone agar, colony verrucose, wrinkled, waxy, grayish white, 

 light amber yellow margin with a chalky efflorescence, but no pigmentation 

 of the medium. On potato, colony wrinkled, grayish to yellow or brown with 

 a chalky efflorescence, diastatic action and brown pigmentation of the medium. 

 On gelatin, a yellowish white flocculent mass on surface with center brown. 

 Fir tree arborescence in the medium. In peptone beef broth, there is a sedi- 

 ment of discrete opaque, white, flocculent colonies. No pigmentation of the 

 medium. Litmus milk at first becomes pink, then a clear red brown, and 

 alkaline. Horse serum is completely liquefied with the formation of a brown 

 pigment. Gelatin is also liquefied. 



Actinomyces Garteni Brumpt, Precis Parasitol. ed. 4, 1191, 1927. 



Cladothrix liquefaciens No. 2. Garten, Deutsch, Zeitschr. Chirurg. 41: 257- 

 285, PI. 6, 1895. 



Discomyces Garteni Brumpt, Precis Parasitol. ed. 1, 1910. 



Oospora Oarteni Sartory, Champ. Parasit. Homme Anim. 778, 779, 1923. 



Nocardia Garteni Gougerot, Gaz. des Hop. 86: 199, 1913. 



Isolated from abscesses. Pathogenic to rabbits, guinea pigs, and pigeons. 



Colonies on agar much wrinkled, gray white, shining, with a chalky ef- 

 florescence; later penetrating and darkening the medium. On glycerol agar, 

 growth is slower, moist, and shining, with no efflorescence. Organism grows 

 on potato, better at 37° C. than at 22° C, with a white efflorescence formed 

 and potato discolored on the surface. Small grayish white adherent colonies 

 on gelatin. In broth or blood serum, there is a grayish white deposit of 

 flocculi, surface colonies showing the efflorescence. Solid blood serum is 

 liquefied in 6 days, the liquid remaining clear. Gelatin also liquefied. 



Actinomyces Nicollei (Delanoe) Nannizzi, Tratt. Micopat. Umana [Pol- 

 laeci] 4: 36, 1934. 



Nocardia Nicollei Delanoe, Arch. Inst. Pasteur Tunis 17: 257-274, 3 figs., 

 1928. 



Isolated from a voluminous mycetoma of the thigh in the tribe Oulad 

 Bou Zerrara, Morocco. It began with inguinal adenitis and developed slowly, 

 with no pain. Eight leg larger than left, lesions on the upper two-thirds of 

 the thigh violet in color, producing pus with small yellow grains. Medication 

 with KI helped somewhat, but patient not hospitalized long enough for a cure 

 to be effected. Patient died six months later. Reported as not pathogenic 

 to animals, but pathogenicity tested only after organism had been cultivated 

 four years on potato. Grains yellowish white, 0.5-0.8, rarely 1 mm. in diam- 

 eter, easily crushed, becoming ochraceous on drying. 



Hyphae branched, not over 1/x in diameter, nonseptate, no nuclei observed. 

 Terminal, sporiferous portion of hypha is abjointed from the rest. Spores 

 spherical, 0.3-0.7/a (also reported I/a) in diameter, not easily staining. Chlamy- 

 dospores deeply staining. Gram-positive, not acid-fast. Optimum tempera- 

 ture 25°-30° C, growth between 15° and 37° C. 



