BACILLUS MYCOIDES 



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anthrax, but are distinguished from them by a lively 

 motility. Gelatine is liquefied. On plate-cultures there 



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iiii. 



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- Liquefied portion 



- Processes from the neecUe-tracli 



-ElG. 58.— THBUST-CmiURE IX GELATINE OF BACILLUS 3UC0IDES. (FoUETH DAY). 



appear colonies which ramify like mycelium, so that the 

 plate looks as if overgrown with moulds. In thrust-cultures 

 liquefaction sets in on the surface as early ~as the second 



