FAMILY ACTINOMYCETACEAE 



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de Parasitologic, 1st ed., 1910, 860; 

 Nocardia pulmonalis Castellani and 

 Chalmers, Man. Trop. Med., 2nd ed., 



1913, 817; Actinomyces pulmonalis Sar- 

 tory and Bailly, Mycoses Pulmonaires, 

 1923, 256.) From the sputum of a 

 patient with pulmonary mycosis. 



Oospora pulmonalis var. chromogena 

 Sartory. (Sartory, 1913; Actinomyces 

 pulmonalis var. chromogenus Nannizzi, 

 in Pollacci, Tratt. Micopat. Umana, 

 4, 1934, 39.) From sputum of a patient 

 suspected of having puhnonary tubercu- 

 losis. 



Proaclinomyces alhus Krassilnikov. 

 (Bull. Acad. Sci., U. S. S. R., No. 1, 

 1938, 139.) Cells at first produce my- 

 celium with frequent branching varying 

 in diameter from 0.6 to 1.0 micron. 

 Breaks up after 2 or 3 days into rods and 

 sometimes later into cocci. Multiply 

 by fission, cross -wall formation and 

 budding. Does not form spores; cells 

 are Gram-positive and are not acid-fast. 

 Colorless growth. Colonies vary in the 

 different strains, somewhat rough, folded, 

 shiny or dull, of a dough-like consistency, 

 Krassilnikov listed several strains of this 

 organism, including Proactinomyces oli- 

 gocarbophilus. 



Proactinomyces uquosus Turfitt. 

 (Jour. Bact.. 47, 1944, 490.) From soil. 

 Decomposes cholesterol. 



Proaclinomyces cyaneus (Beijerinck) 

 Krassilnikov. (Actinococcus cyaneus 

 Beijerinck, Folia microbiol., Delft, 3, 



1914, 196; Krassilnikov, loc. cil.) Blue 

 pigment produced on synthetic media. 

 Cells are i-od-shaped. 0.7 to 0.8 by 3 to 

 7 microns. Branching cell material on 

 potato multiplies by means of bud forma- 

 tion, by fission, and cross-wall formation; 

 no true spores formed. 



P roactinomyces cyaneus-antibiolicus 

 Cause. (Jour. Bact., 51, 1946, 049.) 

 From soil. Produces litmocidin, a new 

 antibiotic. 



Proactinomyces moormani Franklin. 

 (Ann. Intern. Med., 13, 1940, 1205.) 



From the pus of multiple molar abscesses 

 in a dental patient. 



P roacli7iomyces paraguayensis Al- 

 meida. (Mycopath., 2, 1940, 201.) 

 From a thoracic mycetoma with heavy, 

 dark grains affecting a Canadian patient 

 living in the Paraguayan Chaco. 

 Sabouraud's glucose agar: Pseudomem- 

 branous colony with raised, dark center 

 surrounded by a white band, progres- 

 sively increasing in size, and then by a 

 light chocolate area. 



Proactinomyces reslrictus Turfitt. 

 (Jour. Bact., 47, 1944, 491.) From soil. 

 Decomposes cholesterol. 



Proactinomyces sp. Helzer. Found in 

 sputum of tuberculous patient. Patho- 

 genic for guinea pigs and rabbits. 



Streptothrix buccalis Goadby. (M}'- 

 cology of the Mouth, London, 1903, 200.) 

 From the mouth in cases of pyorrhoea. 

 Chalmers and Christopherson (Ann. 

 Trop. Med. and Parasit., 10, 1916, 234) 

 regard this as a synonym of Nocardia 

 liquej aciens . 



Streptothrix flava Chester. {Acti- 

 nomyces sp. Bruns, Cent. f. Bakt., 26, 

 1899, 11; Chester, Man. Determ. Bact., 

 1901, 362; Nocardia hruni Chalmers and 

 Christopherson, Ann. Trop. Med. and 

 Parasit., 10, 1916, 256; Streptothrix homi- 

 nis Bruns, according to Chalmers and 

 Christopherson, idem; Discomyces hruni 

 Brumpt, Precis de Parasitol., Paris, 

 3rd ed., 1922, 992; Actinomyces hnrni 

 Brumpt, ibid., 4th ed., 1927, 1204; Acti- 

 nomyces flavus Dodge, Medical My- 

 cology, St. Louis, 1935, 752.) From pus 

 from a case of actinomycosis of the ab- 

 dominal wall. 



Streptothrix fusca Karwacki. (Kar- 

 wacki, Compt. rend. Soc. Biol., 66, 

 1911, 180; not Streptothrix fusca Corda, 

 Prachtflora europaischer Schimmel- 

 bildungen, Leipzig and Dresden, 1839, 

 27; Nocardia fusca Castellani and Chal- 

 mers, Man. Trop. Med., 2nd ed., 1913, 

 818; Discomyces fuscus Brumpt, Precis 

 de Parasitol., Paris, 3rd ed., 1922, 993; 

 Oospora fusca Sartory, Champ. Paras. 



