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sundheitsamte, 1, 1886, 51; Rothlauf- 

 bacillen, Schiitz, ibid., 74; Bacillus of 

 swine plague, Salmon, Rept. U. S. Dept. 

 Agr., Bur. An. Ind., 1886, 87; Bacillus 

 parvus ovatus Fltigge, Die Mikroorganis- 

 men, 2 Aufl., 1886, 273; Trevisan, Reale 

 Institute Lombardo d. Sci. e Let. Rend., 

 Ser. 2, 20, 1887, 94; Bacterium suicida 

 Migula, in Engler and Prantl, Natiirl. 

 Pflanzenfam., 1, la, 1895, 27; Bacillus 

 suisepticus Kruse, in Fliigge, Die Mikro- 

 organismen, 3 Aufl., !i, 1896, 419; Bac- 

 terium suisepticus Chester, Ann. Rept. 

 Del. Col. Agr. Exp. Sta., 9, 1897, 80; La 

 Pasteurella porcine, Lignieres, Recueil 

 de Mdd. Vdt6r., 77, 1900, 391 ; Pasteurella 

 suiseptica Holland, Jour. Bact., 5, 1920, 

 220; Pasteurella suum Hutyra, in Kolle, 

 Kraus and Uhlenhuth, Handb. d. path. 

 Mikroorg.,-3 Aufl., 6, 1927-1929, 487.) 

 From swine. 



Bacterium bovicida Migula. (Microbo 

 del barbone dei bufali, Oreste Armanni, 

 Atti. d. R. Istit. d'incoragg. alle scienze 

 natur. ecenom. e technol., 1887; Letta 

 nella tornata Accad., Sept. 16, 1886; 

 Cent. f. Bakt., 2, 1887, 50; Atti della 

 Commissione per le malattie degli ani- 

 mali, 121, 1887; Migula, Syst. d. Bakt., 

 2, 1900, 366; Pasteurella bubalseptica 

 Kelser, Man. Vet. Bact., 1st ed., 1927, 

 195; Bacillus bubalsepticus Kelser, ibid.; 

 Bacillus bipolaris bubalisepticus Haudu- 

 roy etal.. Diet. d. Bact. Path., 1937, 312.) 

 From buffaloes. 



Pasteurella vituliseptica (Kitt) Ford. 

 (Bacillus vitulisepticus Kitt, in Kolle 

 and Wassermann, Handb. d. path. Mi- 

 kroorg., 1 Aufl., 2, 1903, 562; Bacterium 

 vitulisepticum Lehmann and Neumann, 

 Bakt. Diag., 5 Aufl., 2, 1912, 282; Ford, 

 Textb. of Bact., 1927, .597.) From 

 calves. 



Pasteurella muricida Meyer and Batch- 

 elder. (Meyer and Batchelder, Jour. 

 Inf. Dis., 39, 1926, 386; Pasteurella 

 muriseptica Topley and Wilson, Princip. 

 Bact. and Immun., 1st ed., 1, 1931, 482; 

 not Pasteurella muriseptica Bergey et al., 

 1st ed., 1923, 265 (Bacillus murisepticus 

 Fliigge, Die Mikroorganismen, 2 Aufl., 



1886, 250; Erysipelothrix muriseptica 

 Bergey et al., Manual, 2nd ed., 1925, 

 .380).) From wild rats. 



Bacillus bipolaris der nialignen Meer- 

 schwcinchen-Phlegmasie of Heymannand 

 Kyriasides, Ztschr. f. Hyg., lU, 1932, 119 

 (Klebsiella caviae Hauduroy et al.. Diet, 

 d. Bact. Path., 1937, 261) is stated by the 

 original authors to be closely related to 

 this organism. 



Plasaj and Pribram (Cent. f. Bakt., I 

 Abt., Orig., 87, 1921, 1) also present a 

 classification of the hemorrhagic septi- 

 cemia bacteria. 



Description from Schiitze (Med. Res. 

 Council, Syst. of Bact., London, 4, 1929, 

 451 ) who prepared it from studies of 230 

 strains described by 17 authors during 

 the years 1908-1926. 



Short ellipsoidal rods: 0.3 to 1.25 

 microns in length, occurring singly, in 

 pairs, rarely in chains. Show bipolar 

 staining. Non -motile. Gram-negative. 



Gelatin: No liquefaction. 



Agar: Fine translucent growth. Char- 

 acteristic odor. 



Broth: Uniform turbidity. Charac- 

 teristic odor. 



Milk: No change in reaction. No 

 coagulation. 



Potato : No visible growth . 



Indole is formed. 



Nitrites are produced from nitrates. 



Hydrogen sulfide is produced. 



No hemolysis on blood agar. 



Acid but no gas from glucose, mannitol 

 (usually), sucrose, fructose, sorbitol, 

 galactose, mannose, xylose (usually) and 

 trehalose (usually). No acid from lac- 

 tose, dulcitol, arabinose (usually), amyg- 

 dalin, maltose (usually), raffinose, 

 rhamnose, adonitol, dextrin, inulin, glyc- 

 erol, salicin (usually) or erythritol. 



Optimum temperature 37°C. Killed 

 at temperatures above 45°C. 



Aerobe to facultative anaerobe. 



Three serological types have been 

 found on the basis of agglutination tests 

 (Little and Lyon, Amer. Jour. Vet. Res., 

 4, 1943, 110). 



