Intoxication due to absorption of dead saprophytes into the system.
Sapremia+ may be defined as an intoxication due to the absorption of dead saprophytes and their products (ptomains and toxalbumins).
The fungi are all destitute of chorophyll, and, therefore, to be supplied with elaborated nourishment, must live as saprophytes or parasites.
But inoculate some of the sputum under the skin of a mouse and three or four days later the pneumococcus will have entered the blood stream (leaving the saprophytes at the seat of inoculation) and killed the animal.
The pneumococcus for example occurs in the sputum of patients suffering from acute lobar pneumonia, but usually in association with various saprophytes derived from the mouth and pharynx.
The optimum medium for the growth of the pneumococcus, blood agar, is also an excellent pabulum for the saprophytes of the mouth, and plate cultures are rapidly overgrown by them to the destruction of the more delicate pneumococcus.
Neisseria DD--Not as D E--Saprophytes in zooegloea masses in sugar solutions.
No pathogenic bacteria and none of the saprophytes liable to be met with in the laboratory are able to "liquefy" agar.
Indeed, the whole group of the saprophytes is not to be accounted so utterly abandoned as that of the parasites.
Saprophytes are not thus limited for food supply and it is possible to build up large plants such as the common mushroom group, puff-balls, etc.
All fungi are either parasites or saprophytes which have lost their chlorophyll, and are incapable of supporting an independent existence.
Fischer has proposed that the old division into saprophytes and parasites should be replaced by one which takes into account other peculiarities in the mode of nutrition of bacteria.
The saprophytes are consequently essential to the existence of both animals and vegetables.
These saprophytes act upon the tissues of dead animals and vegetables, and resolve them into simpler substances, which are then ready to serve as nourishment for plants higher in the vegetable kingdom.
The presence of common saprophytes in the soil is prejudicial to the development of the cholera spirillum, and under ordinary circumstances it succumbs in the struggle for existence.
It is probable, as suggested, that many of the species of common saprophytes normally existent in the soil act as auxiliary agents to denitrification and putrefaction.
In addition to these saprophytes and the economic bacteria, there are, as is now well known, some disease-producing bacteria finding their nidus in ordinary soil.
But they are not normal habitants, and though they struggle for survival, the keenness of competition among the dense crowds of saprophytes makes existence almost impossible for them.
Nor must it be understood that the action ofsaprophytes is wholly that of breaking down and decomposition.
It is but our lack of knowledge which requires the present division of saprophytes whose business and place in the world is unknown.
Not only are the numbers incredibly large, but we also find a very extensive representation of species, including both saprophytes and parasites, non-pathogenic and pathogenic.
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