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connection with the disease. But this has been disproved 

 and the cause of syphilis has been found in a protozoon 

 which has been called Spirochaeta pallida, which see (p. 209). 

 The smegma bacillus is found in and about the genital or- 

 gans, is an acid-fast bacillus which resembles the tubercle 

 bacillus in form, but is easily decolorized with alcohol, thus 

 differing from the latter. It has no pathogenic properties, but 

 is found at times in the throat and may be mistaken for B. 



Fig. 52. Bacillus of glanders from a culture upon glycerin agar-agar 

 (Xiooo) (Frankel and Pfeiffer). 



tuberculosis. Differentiated in staining, according to Pap- 

 penheim's Method. 



Bacillus of Glanders (Bacillus Mallei (Loffler-Schiitz) ; 

 Rotz-bacillus). Origin. In the "farcy buds" or little 

 nodules of the disease, by Loffler and Schiitz, in 1882. 



Form. Small slender rods, about the size of the tubercle 

 bacillus. The ends rounded. Never appearing in large col- 

 lections, usually singly (Fig. 52). Granules like spores 

 appear in some cultures; branched forms are found. 



