BACTERIOLOGY 



176. Bact. Miquelii (Kruse) 



Un Bacille vivant au dela de 70 C. Miquel : Ann. de Microgr., 88. 

 B. thermophilus Frankland : Microorganisms of water, 1894, 488. 

 B.thermophilus-Miquelii Kruse: Fliigge, Die Mikroorganismen, 1896, 269. 



Morphology. Bacilli i .o /x, thick, and of variable length, to filaments. Opti- 



mum temperature 65-7o. 



Agar slant. At 43, colonies white, elevated disks. 

 Bouillon. At 50, turbid with a fragile membrane. 

 Habitat. Water. 



177. Bact. thermophilum, IV (Rabin.) : l.c. 

 Morphology. Bacilli rods to filaments.' 



Agar colonies. Colorless, with outgrowths. 

 Habitat. Soil and excrement. 



178. Bact. thermophilum, II (Rabin.) : l.c. 

 Morphology. Bacilli bent. 



Agar colonies. Granular, grayish. 

 Potato. Growth grayish yellow colonies. 

 Habitat. Widely distributed. 



1 79. Bact. thermophilum, VIII (Rabin.) : l.c. 



Agar colonies. Colorless, round, entire. 

 Potato. Growth, moist, gray brown. 

 Habitat. Excrement. 



1 80. Bact. erythematis (Kruse) 



B. of erythema-no do sum. Demme : Fortschritte d. Medizin, 1888, No. 7. 

 B. erythematis Kruse: Fliigge, Die Mikroorganismen, 1896, 426. 



Morphology. Bacilli 0.5-0.7 : 2.5 p. 



Blood serum. A paraffin-like, glistening streak, with radiations like fish fins. 



Pathogenesis. Inoculations of guinea pigs cause an appearance of erythema- 



nodosum, and death. 

 Habitat. Associated with erythema-nodosum. 



181. Bact. Colomatii 



Discovered by Colomati : Breslauer arztliche Zeitsch., 1883, No. 4. 

 Morphology. Bacilli like those of mouse-septicaemia ; in irregular masses. 

 Blood serum. 37, growth of rosette-like forms, dull, glistening, of a fatty lustre. 

 Habitat. Isolated from xerotic masses in conjunctivitis. 



