MUCOSUS CAPSULATUS GROUP 187 



Bacterium cezncr. The former is said to cause a slow 

 granulomatous inflammation on the nose, mouth, or 

 larynx, in which hard nodular swellings are formed, 

 containing large typical cells loaded with bacilli. 

 Bacterium ceznce is associated with fetid atrophic 

 rhinitis or nasal catarrh. 



FIG. 51. Bacillus of rhinoscleroma. Section of tissue showing 

 the microorganisms within Mikulicz cells. (After Frankel and 

 Pfeiffer.) 



All the mucosus group are moderately pathogenic 

 for animals, but injections into these experimentally 

 do not call forth prototypes of the diseases in man. 

 Usually a septicemia with extensive fibrin deposit 

 on serous membranes results. The thick, stringy, or 

 viscid character of the exudates is peculiar to these 

 bacteria. No antiserum has been produced to use in 

 cases of disease caused by them, but there have been 



