CHAPTER VI. 



GLANDERS AND ACTINOMYCOSIS. 



Bacillus of Glanders (Bacillus Mallei). 



THE specific cause of glanders is the Bacillus mallei, dis- 

 covered by Loeffler and Schuetz in 1882, in the lesions and 

 discharges of glanders. 



The glanders bacillus is a small, thick rod, with rounded 

 ends, measuring from 1.5 /* to 3 // in length, and from 0.2 fj. 

 to 4 fj. in thickness. It is not motile, has no demonstrable 

 flagella, and is without definite arrangement or grouping 



FIG. 89. 



Glanders bacilli. Agar culture. X 1000. (Park.) 



(Fig. 89). Some observers have found evidences of sporula- 

 tion and others have not. 



It stains best with Loeffler's methylene-blue. It is very 

 easily decolorized. Gram's method is not applicable. The 



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