The cause of this luminosity is Micrococcus phosphorens, an immotile round, or almost round organism.
This vaccine is said to be made from killed cultures of Streptococcus, Pneumococcus, Micrococcus catarrhalis, Staphylococcus aureus, and Staphylococcus albus.
There are also two pigment forming bacteria, Micrococcus prodigiosus, which produces intensely red spots, and the yellow micrococcus of osteomyelitis.
By examining this membrane we have come to know the very species that does the mischief--the micrococcus diphtheriticus.
She remembered his statement that the micrococcus diphtheriticus was to be found in the light-colored patches visible in the throat of a diphtheria patient.
Wright also showed that opsonins are just as specific as agglutinins are--that is, a micrococcus opsonin prepares micrococci only for phagocytosis and not streptococci or any other bacteria.
Under observation, pale, finely-granular micrococcus balls developed and changed very quickly to bacteria, which moved about very actively.
This finds its counterpart in the micrococcus poisoning caused by the inoculation with the spores of common moulds (Grawitz); and in septicæmia also micrococcus and bacillus forms only are found, the filamentous never.
When grown in organic infusions out of the animal body the anthrax-germ develops from micrococcus or bacillus into a long, branching, filamentous product, which in the presence of oxygen develops into spores.
Footnote 25: Sternberg's careful experimentation seems to show the identity of Neisser's gonococcus with the Micrococcus ureæ, commonly found in decomposing urine.
Unlike the micrococcus and bacillus, {933} they do not stain.
Cohn figures a Micrococcus vacciniæ in his article on Bacteria (Microscopical Journal, vol.
The growth appears limited to micrococcus and bacillus rods, while spores or bacillus threads are never found.
So in cases of mortification of the bag; in the very occurrence there is fair circumstantial evidence of the presence of erysipelas micrococcus or other germ which kills the local tissues.
Munro Smith, informs me that, in cultivating microbes, certain forms, such as Bacillus violaceus and Micrococcus prodigiosus, remain in the field during cold weather when other less hardy microbes have perished.
Anthrax bacillus and the Micrococcusof fowl cholera, which have been demonstrated to be the cause of certain diseases.
Many different bacteria possess this property, especially Bacterium ureæ andMicrococcus ureæ, which are found abundantly in urines undergoing alkaline fermentation.
Defn: A form of micrococcusfound in the sputum (and elsewhere) of persons suffering with pneumonia, and thought to be the cause of this disease.
Schloesing and Muntz, by a special ferment, the Micrococcus nitrificans, that belongs to the group of Bacteriacæ.
To cite only those whose origin is well known, we may mention the bacterium that causes charbon, the micrococcus of chicken cholera, and that of hog measles.
Some, that live upon food products, produce therein special coloring matters; such are the bacterium of blue milk, and Micrococcus prodigiosus (Fig.
Von Freudenreich[214] has described a new form Micrococcus casei amari (micrococcus of bitter cheese) that was found in a sample of bitter cheese.
Sometimes a bitter condition does not develop in the milk, but may appear later in the milk products, as in the case of a micrococcus which Freudenreich[69] found in cheese.
Cocci exhibit this movement, but with the exception of the Micrococcus agilis, the cocci are non-motile.
A micrococcus enters the dilated orifices of the sweat-glands, and, reaching the blood, first sets up an endocarditis, and then capillary emboli produce the articular inflammations.
A small indentation occurs in the capsule, which appears to make its way slowly through the whole body of the bacillus or micrococcus until the two parts are separate, and each contained in its own capsule.
In some species multiplication does not appear to depend on the presence of much organic matter, and, indeed, some can live and multiply in sterilised water: Micrococcus aquatilis and Bacillus erythrosporus.
It must further be borne in mind that a dividing micrococcus assumes the exact appearance of a diplococcus during the transition stage of the fission.
Bitter cheese is the result of the Micrococcus casei amari of Freudenreich, a closely allied form of Conn's micrococcus of bitter milk.
Among some of the commoner forms possessing this character are Bacillus et micrococcus violaceus (violet); B.
In this species of micrococcusthe elements are arranged in chains.
It is a micrococcus usually in the form of small tetrads.
In 1882 Schmidt isolated theMicrococcus viscosus, which occurs in chains and rosaries, affecting the milk-sugar.
Micrococcus agilis (Ali-Cohen) is the only coccus which has flagella and active motion.
A form ofmicrococcus found in the sputum (and elsewhere) of persons suffering with pneumonia, and thought to be the cause of this disease.
A form of micrococcus in which cocci are united in a binary manner.
The micrococcus which causes fowl cholera loses its power if it be cultivated in common culture media, care being taken to allow several days to elapse between the successive inoculations into new culture flasks.
They are found almost indiscriminately in any of these wound infections, and none of them appears to have any definite relation to any special form of disease unless it be the micrococcus of erysipelas.
Now, the treatment for his micrococcus pyogenous is "continue chloromycetin," I guess it is four times a day.
A specific micro-organism, the Micrococcus melitensis, was discovered in 1887, and it was traced to the milk of the Maltese goats.
Mediterranean (sometimes called "Malta") fever has been traced by Colonel David Bruce to a Micrococcus melitensis.
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