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APPLIED BACTERIOLOGY FOR NURSES 



ducing infections in man. These are characterized by 

 the production of a blue or blue-green pus, whence the 

 name, pyocyaneus, signifying blue pus. Prophylaxis 

 is similar to that described under Streptococcus and 

 Staphylococcus. 



Glanders Bacillus. A small bacillus with rounded ends, 

 Gram-negative, non-motile. Common in horses, where 

 it produces the disease known as glanders or farcy, and 

 easily communicated to man, where it produces an in- 



7-^-' j'3 ;t-' 



Fig. 56. Bacillus mallei (glanders). Pure culture from glucose- 

 agar. Carbol fuchsin; X 1200 (Jordan). 



fection which is fatal in 60 per cent, of the cases. The 

 infective material exists in the secretions of the horses' 

 nose, in the pus of glanders nodules, and frequently in 

 the blood. Prophylaxis is indicated by what has just 

 been said. Glandered horses should be promptly de- 

 stroyed. 



