SYMPTOMATIC ANTHRAX BACILLUS 



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Temperature Requirements. It is best cultivated at body tem- 

 perature, but grows anywhere between 18 C. and 37 C. 



FIG. 59. Rauschbrand bacilli showing spores. (Kolle and Wassermann.) 



FIG. 60. Rauschbrand bacillus showing flagella. (Kolle and Wassermann.) 



Cultures. It is, like tetanus and malignant oedema organisms, 

 a strict anaerobe. On gelatine it grows in roundish whitish colonies 

 in a delicate tangled mass, with projecting filaments. The gelatine 



