54 
THOMPSON YATES LABORATORIES REPORT 
Urine from another enteric case, which was convalescing from a relapse, was 
taken, and I c.c. put into a plate of bile salt lactose agar. Five cultures were made 
from this plate. 
Broth 
Milk 
Glucose Jelly 
Potato 
Indol 
I. Short bac. Actively motile . 
General 
turbidity 
Acid 
Gas 
No liquefaction 
Just visible 
+ 
2. „ : motile . 
Moist, yeliow growth 
with discolouration 
+ 
3- „ 
Acid, clotting 
+ 
4- » „ . . 
-t- 
5- » „ . . 
+ 
None of these formed spores ; nor did they stain by Gram's method. 
Again, faeces from a case of enteric, which was in the 3rd week of a relapse 
and 10th week of the disease, were diluted 30,000 times with sterile water and plated. 
1 c.c. of this dilution was put into each plate. The plates were overcrowded with 
what looked like a pure culture of the B. c. c. group. Subcultures were made from 19 
surface colonies. 
Motility 
Broth 
Glucose jelly 
Milk 
Potato 
Indol 
1. Short bacillus 
General 
turbidity 
Gas 
No liquefaction 
Acid 
clotting 
Moist, transparent 
+ 
+ 
Moist, yellow. P.D. 
+ 
3- 
+ 
4- 
+ 
„ grey, yellow. P.D. 
+ 
5- 
" 
„ transparent 
+ 
6. 
1 
+ 
7- 
8. 
„ grey, yellow. P.D. 
+ 
+ 
9- 
+ 
+ 
10. 
.i. „ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
12. „ 
+ 
■3- 
' Invisible ' 
+ 
14- 
• 
Moist,grey,yellow. P.D. 
+ 
15- 
" 
" " " " 
+ 
16. 
„ transparent 
+ 
17- 
18. 
+ 
+ 
„ 
„ grey, yellow. P.D. 
+ 
+ 
19- 
+ 
+ 
P.D. = discolouration of potato. 
