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salioin, adonitol or inositol. Rarely 

 may fail to form gas from sugars (Nabih, 

 Jour. Hyg., U, 1941, 39). 



Reduces trimethylamine oxide (Wood 

 and Baird, loc. cit.). 



Hydrogen sulfide produced. 



Optimum temperature 37 °C. 



Aerobic, facultative. 



Antigenic structure: VI, VII, [Vi]: 

 c: 1,5. . . . 



Source: Isolated from cases of enteric 

 fever in man. 



Habitat: A natural pathogen of man 

 causing enteric fever. 



30. Salmonella choleraesuis (Smith) 

 Weldin. (Probably not the Bacillus of 

 swine plague, Klein, Report of the Medi- 

 cal Officer of the Local Gov. Bd., Eng- 

 land, 1877-78, Supplement, p. 168; Bac- 

 terium of swine plague, Salmon, U. S. 

 Dept. Agr. Bur. An. Ind. Ann. Rep., 

 1885, 212; Bacterium of hog cholera, 

 Salmon, ihid., 1886, 20; Bakterium der 

 Schweinepest, Selander, Cent. f. Bakt., 

 3, 1888, 361; Pasteurella mlmoni Trevi- 

 san, I generi e le specie delle Batteriacee, 

 1889, 21; Bacterium, cholerae suis Th. 

 Smith, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bur. An. Ind., 

 Bull. 6, 1894, 9; Swine-feverbacillus, 

 Klein, Cent. f. Bakt., I Abt., 18, 1895, 

 105; Bacillus suipestifer Kruse, in 

 Fliigge, Die Mikroorganismen, 3 Aufl., 

 2, 1896, 401; Bacterium cholerae suum 

 Lehmann and Neumann, Bakt. Diag., 

 1 Aufl., 3, 1896, 233; Bacterium suipesti- 

 fer Chester, Ann. Rept. Del. Col. Agr. 

 Exp. Sta., 9, 1897, 70; Bacillus cholerae 

 suum Migula, Syst. d. Bakt., 2, 1900, 

 759; Le microbe du hog-cholera, Lig- 

 nieres. Bull. Soc. Cent. M^d. Vet., see 

 Rec. de m^d. v^t., Paris, S^r. 8, 7, 1900, 

 389; Bacillus salmoni Chester, Manual 

 Determ. Bact., 1901, 210; Bacterium 

 intestinale suis Le Blaye and Guggen- 

 heim, Manuel Pratique de Diagnostic 

 Bacteriologique, 1914; Bacillus suis 

 Krumwiede, Kohn and Valentine, Jour. 

 Med. Res., 88, 1918, 89; Bacterium 

 (Salmonella) cholera suis Buchanan, 

 Jour. Bact., 3, 1918, 53; Salmonella 



suipestifer Castellani and Chalmers, 

 Man. Trop. Med., 3rd ed., 1919, 939; 

 Bacillus cholerae-suis Winslow, Kligler 

 and Rothberg, Jour. Bact., 4, 1919, 476; 

 Bacterium cholerae-suis Holland, Jour. 

 Bact., 5, 1920, 217; Bacillus paratypho- 

 sus B (Arkansas type), Schtitze, Lancet, 

 2, 1920, 93; included in Group I suipesti- 

 fer, Andrewes and Neave, Brit. Jour. 

 Exp. Path., 2, 1921, 157; Weldin, Iowa 

 Sta. Coll. Jour. Sci., 1, 1927, 155; Ty- 

 pus suipestifer Amerika, Kauffmann, Zbl. 

 f. d. ges. Hyg., 25, 1931, 273; the Ameri- 

 can Salmonella suipestifer of many 

 authors.) From Latin, hog cholera. 



Salmonella choleraesuis (Smith) Wel- 

 din is the type species of the genus Sal- 

 monella. 



Rods: 0.6 to 0.7 by 2.0 to 3.0 microns, 

 occurring singly. Motile with four to 

 five peritrichous flagella. Gram-nega- 

 tive. 



Gelatin colonies: Grayish, smooth, 

 fiat, glistening; margin irregular. 



Gelatin stab: Flat, grayish surface 

 growth. No liquefaction. 



Agar colonies: Grayish, moist, smooth, 

 translucent. 



Agar slant: Grayish, moist, smooth, 

 translucent growth. 



Broth: Turbid, with thin pellicle and 

 grayish-white sediment. 



Litmus milk: Slightly acid, becoming 

 alkaline, opalescent, translucent to yel- 

 lowish-gray. 



Potato: Grayish -white streak becom- 

 ing brownish. 



Indole not formed. 



Nitrites produced from nitrates. 



Acid and gas from glucose, fructose, 

 galactose, mannose, xylose, maltose, 

 glycerol, mannitol, dulcitol, rhamnose, 

 sorbitol and dextrin. Arabinose, inosi- 

 tol, lactose, sucrose, salicin, inulin, 

 raifinose and trehalose not attacked. 



Reduces trimethylamine oxide (Wood 

 and Baird, loc. cit.). 



Hydrogen sulfide not produced. 



Optimum temperature 37 °C. 



Aerobic, facultative. 



Antigenic structure: VI, VII: c: 1, 



