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II. Gelatin not liquefied ; rods at sporulation between clostridium and tetanus 

 types, variable. 



A. Gas produced in media containing milk-sugar. 



260. B. saccharobutyricus v. Klecki. 



B. No gas produced in media containing milk-sugar. 



1. Agar colonies compound, moruloid. 



261 . B. polypiformis Liborius. 



2. Agar colonies simple. 



262. B. Sanfelicei. 



248. B. Feseri (Trevisan) Kitt 



Rauschbrand des Rindes Bollinger-Feser : Wochschr. f. Thierheilk., 1878. 



B. der Charbon Symptomatique Arloing-Cornevin-Thomas : Compt. rend., XC, 



1880, 1302-5. 



Clostridium Feseri Trevisan: Atti Ace. Fis. Med. Stat. di Milano, III, 1885, 116. 

 B. sarcemphysematis Kitt. 



B.carbonis Migula: Die Natiirlichen Pflanzenfamilien, 1895. 

 B. anthracis-symptomatici Kruse : Fliigge, Die Mikroorganismen, 1896. 



Morphology. Bacilli 3-5 /x in length ; in thickness between anthrax and 



malignant oedema bacilli. Stained by Gram's method. Flagella 



peritrichic. 

 Gelatin colonies. Round, irregular ; surface warty ; radiating filaments grow 



out into the gelatin. 

 Gelatin stab. Medium liquefied slowly, with gas production ; a turbidity along 



the line of inoculation, with outgrowths. 



Litmus milk. Decolorized in depth, reddened on the surface. 

 Milk. Coagulated, slightly acid. Indol slight. H 2 S positive. 

 Pathogenesis . Guinea pigs show a bloody gaseous oedema by subcutaneous 



inoculation of large doses. Rabbits and mice immune. 

 Habitat. Associated with Rauschbrand, symptomatic anthrax, quarter-evil, or 



black-leg, of sheep, cattle, and goats. 



249. B. anaerobic No. VIII Sanfelice and B. anaerobic No. V Sanfelice 



I.e. 



Isolated from earth and putrefying flesh, indistinguishable from the preceding, 

 except that both are non-virulent. 



