TUBE CULTURES. (From U. S. Government Report on Cholera.-Shakespeare.) H. I. J. DENEKE. CHEESE BA FINKLER AND PRIOR. FINKLER AND PRIOR. FINKLER AND PRIOR. pigs, they die at times, sometimes with intestinal symptoms, sometimes without. Bacillus Coli Communis. (Escherich.) Found in human feces, intestinal canal of most animals, in pus and water. Form.-Short rods with very slow movement, often associated in little masses resembling the typhoid germ. Bacillus coli communis, from an agar-agar culture; X 1000 (Itzerott and Niemann). Properties.-Does not liquefy gelatine, causes fermentation in saccharine solutions in the absence of oxygen, produces acid fermentation in milk. Growth. On potato a thick, moist, yellow-colored growth. Very soon after inoculation on gelatine a growth similar to typhoid. It can also develop in carbolized gelatine, and withstands a temperature of 45° C. without its growth being destroyed. Pathogenesis.-Inoculated into rabbits or guinea-pigs, death follows in from one to three days, the symptoms being those of diarrhoea and coma; after death tumefactions of Peyer's patches and other parts of the intestine; perforations into peritoneal cavity, the blood containing a large number of germs. |