998, 



INDEX 



Autolysis, 215 



Autolytic enzymes, 208, 516 



Autoprecipitins, 719 



Autotrophic" organisms, 223 



Avenue of infection, 674 



Avian coccidiosis, 889 



Azotobacter, 371, 372, 374, 378,^380, 



398, 402, 403, 405.425 

 *.-, agilis, 403 



beyerincki, 404, 405 

 ^ .'.. chroococcum, 403, 404, 405, 420 

 complete oxidation, 234 

 isolation of, 359 

 & life cycle of, 100 

 , limiting reaction, 357 

 prototrophic, 223 

 vinelandii, 403, 405 

 vitreum, 404 

 woodstownii, 404 



BABESIA, 139 



bigemina, morphology, 895 



in red water, 894 

 parva, in East coast fever, 896 

 pathogenic, 894 

 Bacillary septicaemia of caterpillars, 



918 



white diarrhoea, 806 

 Bacillus acetigenus, 638 



acridiorum, 905, 918, 946 



artificial infection with, 914-917 



in disease of locusts, 912 



morphology of, 913 

 alvei, 96, 948 



in European foul brood, 928 



metachromatic corpuscles of, 101, 



102 



amethystinus, 312 

 amylobacter, 402, 404 



fermentation of, 236 



fermentation products of, 233 



prototrophic, 223 



in retting, 658 



in sewage, 334 

 amylovorus, 958 



morphology of, 961 



Bacillus amylozyma, 232 



anthracis symptomatici (B. chau- 

 vaei), 740 



in blackleg, 839 



morphology of, 841 



production of vaccine, 729 



toxin of, 840 

 aquatilis, 312 

 aroideae, 984 

 asterosporus, 96 



metachromatic corpuscles of, ioi, 



102 



aurantiacus, 312 

 bifidus, in faeces, 598 



in intestine, 597 



pathogenic in intestine, 600 



technique of isolation, 600 

 botulinus, 577, 663, 740 



acid formation of, 236 



antitoxin for, 704 



in botulism, 587 



on cabbage, 571 



in canned foods, 529 



cultural characteristics, 589 



in food poisoning, 584, 585 



incidence of, 590 



indication of presence, 540 



morphology, 589 



in olives, 573 



prevalence, 529 



in silage, 576 



spoilage due to, 591 



in stomach, 671 



toxin of, 590, 676 



bronchisepticus, production of vac- 

 cine, 738 

 biitschlii, 95 



diffuse nucleus in, 94 



membrane, 103 



nucleus in, 97 

 butyricus, in sewage, 334 

 cacosmus, in fowl diphtheria, 818 

 cajae, morphology of, 918-919 



in septicaemia of caterpillar, 918 

 capsulatus mucosus, in pneumonia, 

 798 



