FAMILY BACTERIACEAE 



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755.) From gangrenous lung exudate 

 and the spleen. Motile. 



Bacillus radiatus Zimmermann. (Zim- 

 mermann, Bakt. unserer Trink- u. Nutz- 

 wasser, Chemnitz, 1, 1890, 58; not Ba- 

 cillus radiatus Liideritz, Ztschr. f. Hyg., 

 5, 1889, 149; not Bacillus radiatus Ches- 

 ter, Man. Determ. Bact., 1901, 241; 

 Bacillus aquatilis radiatus Kruse, in 

 Fliigge, Die Mikroorganismen, 3 Aufl., 2, 



1896, 315; quoted as B. radiatus aquatilis 

 Zimmermann by Kruse, idem; Bacterium 

 radiatus aquatilis Chester, Ann. Rept. 

 Del. Col. Agr. Exp. Sta., 9; 1897, 100; 

 Bacterium aquatilis radiatus Chester, 

 idem; Bacillus pseudoradiatus IMigula, 

 Syst. d. Bakt., 2, 1900, 830; Bacterium, 

 aquatilis Chester, Man. Determ. Bact., 

 1901, 160; not Bacterium, aquatile Migula, 

 loc. cit., 469.) From water. Motile. 

 In certain stages of development (pre- 

 sumably old cultures) Zimmermann 

 states that this organism is Gram- 

 negative. 



Bacillus splendens Migula. {Bacillus 

 ■putidus splendens Bernabei, Bull. d. 

 Soc. Lancisiana d. Ospedali di Roma, 

 13; see abst. in Cent. f. Bakt., 17, 1895, 

 469; Migula, Syst. d. Bakt., 2, 1900, 754.) 

 From a case of fetid bronchitis. Motile. 



Bacterium acidiformans (Sternberg) 

 Chester. (Bacillus acidiformans Stern- 

 berg, Man. of Bact., 1893, 449; Chester, 

 Ann. Rept. Del. Col. Agr. Exp. Sta., 9, 



1897, 79.) From the liver of a yellow 

 fever patient. Also reported from bees- 

 wax (White, r. S. Dept. Agr. Bur. En- 

 tomol.. Bull. 14, 1906, 14). 



Bacterium cactivorum Pasmetti and 

 Buz zati -Traverse. (Xuovo Gior. Bot. 

 Ital., N.S. 42, 1935, 117.) From a dis- 

 eased cactus. 



Bacterium dendrobii Pavarino. (Rev. 

 di Pat. Veg.. 5, 1912, 242.) From Dend- 

 rohium sp. 



Bacterium (?) musae (Gaumann) El- 

 liott. (Pseudomonas musae Gaumann, 

 Med. van het Inst, voor Plantz., No. 48, 

 1921, 58; Elliott, Manual Bact. Plant 

 Path., 1930, 170; Phytomonas (?) m.usae 

 Magrou, in Hauduroy et al.. Diet. d. 



Bact. Path., 1937, 385.) From diseased 

 bananas. 



Bacterium nicotinovorum Bucherer. 

 (Cent. f. Bakt., II Abt., 105, 1942, 169.) 

 From a mixture of soil, manure and mud. 



Bacterium pseudotyphosum ]\Iigula. 

 (Typhusahnlicher Bacillus, Lustig, 

 Diagnostik der Bakterien des Wassers, 

 1893, 17; Migula, Syst. d. Bakt., 2, 1900, 

 428.) Non-motile. Isolated by Sartori 

 from Rome tap water. 



Bacterium teutlium Metcalf. (Met- 

 calf. Cent. f. Bakt., II Abt., 13, 1904, 28; 

 Aplanohacter teutlium E. F. Smith, In- 

 tro, to Bact. Dis. of Plants, 1920, 474; 

 Phytomonas teutlia Bergey et al.. Man- 

 ual, 3rd ed., 1930, 280.) From a soft rot 

 of sugar beets. See Manual, 5th ed., 

 1939, 216 for a description of this species. 



Flavobacterium dehydrogenans Ar- 

 naudi. (Micrococcus dehydrogenans Ar- 

 naudi. Boll. Sez. ital. Soc. intern. Micro- 

 biol., 18, 1939, 000; Arnaudi, Cent. f. 

 Bakt., II Abt., 103, 1942-43, 352.) From 

 a pressed yeast cake. 



Flavobacterium vitarumen Knutsen. 

 (Knutsen, in Bechdel, Honeywell, 

 Dutcher and Knutsen, Jour. Biol. 

 Chem., 80, 1928, 234.) From the rumen 

 of a cow. 



Kurthia bessoni Severi. (Quoted from 

 Giorn. Batteriol. e Immunol., 34, 1946, 

 107.) 



Kurthia variabilis Severi. (Giorn. 

 Batteriol. e Immunol., 34, 1946, 107.) 

 From feces. 



22. Bacterium idoneimi McBeth. 

 (McBeth, Soil Science, 1, 1916, 460; 

 Ccllulomonas idonea Bergey et al.. Man- 

 ual, 1st ed., 1923, 165.) From Latin 

 idoneus, capable. 



Ptods: 0.5 by 1.5 microns. Non -mo- 

 tile. Gram-negative. 



Gelatin stab: ^Moderate, yellowish 

 growth. Slight napiform liquefaction. 



Agar colonies: Circular, convex, soft, 

 becoming brittle, grajdsh, granular, en- 

 tire. 



Agar slant: Scant, yellowish-white 

 growth, becoming distinctly yellow. 



