756 MEDICAL MYCOLOGY 



Nocardia sp. Pijper, Folia Microbiol. 5: 50-53, 1 pi., 1917; Med. Jour. S. 

 Africa 12: 141, 142, 1917. 



Nocardia Pijperi Castellani & Chalmers, Man. Trop. Med. ed. 3, 1060, 1919. 



Discomyces Pijperi Neveu-Lemaire, Precis Parasitol. Hum. 44, 1921. 



Oospora sp. Sartory, Champ. Paras. Homme Anim. 811, 1923. 



Pound in the mucopurulent sputum of a patient with chronic bronchitis 

 that had lasted for eleven years. Pathogenic to guinea pigs on intraperitoneal 

 injection. 



Hyphae 0.2-0.3/^ in diameter, nonseptate, ends swollen, often containing 

 granules; gram-positive, not acid-fast. 



On agar, small whitish colonies which increase in size and become hard, 

 cartilaginous crusts, yellowish, and adherent. Surface corrugated. Occasion- 

 ally a small whitish growth on potato. On serum and serum agar, growth 

 same as on agar. No growth on gelatin at 22° C. Litmus milk discolored. 

 Broth clear, only bottom growth. Anaerobic cultures never reach a great size. 



Actinomyces Sartoryi Dodge, n. sp. 



Oospora pulmonalis var. acido-resistant Sartory, Arch. Med. Pharm. Milit. 

 70: 605-609, 1916. 



Isolated from a patient showing symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis. 



Hyphae straight or slightly curved, not tortuous, little branched, 0.4-0. 5/x 

 X 1.5 mm., no spirals seen. Chlamydospores and arthrospores rare except 

 on potato glycerol. Conidia rare. 



No growth on carrot, potato, acid potato, banana, starch gel, ordinary 

 agar, fruit decoctions with agar on gelatin, turnip, artichoke, or Kaulin's gel- 

 atin. Growth slow on potato glycerol, colonies 2 mm. in diameter, with a eon- 

 tour irregular and festooned. Surface folded, yelloAvish white. On Sabou- 

 raud agar, growth a little better, colonies 3-4 mm. in diameter, otherwise the 

 same as on potato glycerol. In broth with maltose or glycerol ; long, little 

 branched filaments appear in 48 hours. In liquid serum no growth. Maltose 

 and lactose fermented. 



Actinomyces transvalensis (Pijper & Pullinger) Nannizzi, Tratt. Micopat. 

 Umana [Pollacci] 4: 46, 1934. 



Nocardia transvalensis Pijper & Pullinger, Jour. Trop. Med. Hyg. 30: 153- 

 156, 2 ph., 1927. 



Found in mycetoma pedis in Pretoria, S. Africa. Lesions produced oily 

 pus with whitish grains, 0.5 mm. in diameter, Avhich showed club forms. Path- 

 ogenic to guinea pigs, grains with clubs being reproduced. 



Hyphae 0.5 fx in diameter, beaded, breaking up into cocciform and bacilli- 

 form fragments. Organism a strict aerobe, growing very slowly at 22° C, 

 very well at 37° C. Gram-positive, not acid-fast. 



In general, colonies circumscribed, adherent, with a white chalky efflores- 

 cence. Old cultures rarely show a yellowish tinge. Diastase present. No 

 growth on gelatin, blood serum, Sabouraud agar, broth ; very little growth on 



