SPECIAL BACTERIOLOGY 
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VIII. Immune Treatment 
Vaccine treatment of colon infection of the kidney and 
urinary bladder is very successful. 
IX. Summary of Important Characteristics 
A Gram-negative bacillus, no spores, no capsule, motile, 
has flagella, grows readily on common media, both fer¬ 
ments and produces gas on all common sugars except sac¬ 
charose; is found normally in human and animal intes¬ 
tine, causes infections of the gall bladder, urinary blad¬ 
der and kidney, also found in several infections of the 
pelvis and abdominal cavity. 
