CHAPTER IX. 

 MOUSE-SEPTICEMIA. 



BACILLUS RHUSIOPATHLE Suis (KITT*) BACILLUS MURI- 

 SEPTICUS (KOCH). 



General Characteristics. An extremely minute, non-motile, non- 

 flagellated, non-sporogenous, liquefying, aerobic and optionally anae- 

 robic, pathogenic, non-chromogenic bacillus, staining by the ordinary 

 methods and by Gram's method. 



Fig. 161. Bacillus of mouse-septicemia, from the blood of a mouse. 

 X 1000 (Frankel and Pfeiffer). 



In 1878, during his investigations upon the infectious 

 traumatic diseases, Koch f observed that when a minute 

 quantity of putrid blood or of putrid meat -infusion was 



* " Bakterienkunde und path. Mikroskopie," 1893, 284. 

 f " Wundinfektionskrankheiten," 1878. 

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