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Milk. Slightly acid, coagulated slowly or not at all. Nitrates reduced to 



nitrites. 

 Habitat. Water. 



204. B. limosus Russell 



Zeitsch. f. Hygiene, XI, 1891, 196. 



Morphology. Bacilli large, rather slender; plasma granular, 1.2 : 3-4 /x. 

 Gelatin colonies. Slightly transparent, with slender filaments extending into 



the gelatin ; later, larger liquefied depressions, with thorn-like projections. 

 Gelatin stab (gelatin made with sea water). Liquefaction infundibuliform 



saccate. 

 Agar slant. Growth moist, glistening, white. 

 Bouillon. Turbid, with a pellicle. . 

 Potato. Growth thin, grayish white. 

 Habitat. Sea water. 



205. B. sputi 



B. No. VI Pansini: Virchow's Archiv, CXI I, 1890. 



Morphology. Bacilli slender. 

 Colonies. Proteus-like. 

 Agar slant. Growth porcelain-white. 

 Potato. An invisible growth. 

 Bouillon. A membrane ; no odor. 

 Habitat. Sputum. 



206. B. vacuolosis Sternberg 



Manual, 1892, 717. 



Morphology. Bacilli 1.0: 1.5-5 filaments; ends rounded. 



Gelatin stab. Liquefaction crateriform ; liquefied gelatin viscid ; a pellicle on 



the surface. 

 Agar slant. Growth creamy white. 

 Potato. Growth thin, creamy white. 

 Pathogenesis. Non-pathogenic to rabbits. 

 Habitat. Isolated from the stomach and intestines of yellow fever cadavers. 



207. B. pseudo-anthracis Kruse 



Milzbrandahnlicher Bacillus aits Siidamet ikanischem Fleischfuttermehl Burn : Hyg. 



Rundschau, 1894, No. 8, ref. Centralblatt f. Bakteriol., XVI, 374. 

 B. pseudo-anthracis Kruse: Fliigge, Die Mikroorganismen, 1896, 233. 



Morphology. Bacilli like anthrax, 1 : 3-6 filaments ; slowly motile. 



Gelatin colonies. Like anthrax. 



Gelatin stab. Liquefaction more rapid than in anthrax, without outgrowths. 



