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(b) Vibrio serpens. This is also a septic organism, much 

 thinner and longer than the previous one, more wavy, as a 





FIG. 93. VIBRIO SEKPENS IN SWARMS (AFTER COHN). 



rule, curved into a single or double wave. The length varies 

 between O'Oll and 0'025 mm. It is motile ; and also forms 

 continuous masses, the individuals interlacing in all direc- 

 tions. 



NOTE. Many of the longer pathogenic bacilli, as bacillus of anthrax, of 

 symptomatic charbon, of tubercle, of ulcerative stomatitis, &c., often present 

 themselves in forms closely resembling vibriones. 



