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MEDICAL BACTEEIOLOGT 



Pus Micrococci. (Str. erysipelatos, M. pyogenes var. aureus and 

 albus, Sar. tetragena.) 



a. Stained cover-glass preparations are to be examined, and if 

 micrococci are found make : 



i. Smear cultures, or better, agar plate cultures and work up the' 

 colonies as they appear. 



Monilia Candida (Organism of Trush). 



The material is collected by removing a portion of the patches or 

 membrane and examining it : 



a. Under the microscope in a drop of glycerine. 



i. Cover-glass preparations stained with carbol-fuchsin or Gram's 

 method. 



c. By means of smear cultures on agar or blood serum, the result- 

 ing growth being examined either in glycerine mounts, or stained 

 cover-glass preparations. 



References. Em. 43 ; v. J. 95 ; Si. 122. See also various texts 

 under special organism. 



