The exciting cause is now generally recognized as the comma bacillus of Koch, or spirillum cholerae.
The shrinking of the threads causes the subsequent contraction of the clot.
The peritoneum, as it covers different organs or sets of organs, receives special names.
It is probably caused by two micro-organisms living in symbiosis--one a fusiform bacillus, the other a long spirillum (Fig.
Bacillus and spirillum of Vincent, from case of ulcerative stomatitis.
The spirillum is a very slender, wavy thread, about 30 to 40 micron long.
The spirillum of relapsing fever can be identified by the method for the malarial parasite in fresh blood.
Beyerinck has shown that Spirillum desulphuricans, a definite anaerobic form, attacks and reduces sulphates, thus undoing the work of the sulphur bacteria as certain de-nitrifying bacteria reverse the operations of nitro-bacteria.
This spirillum was stated to be related in external morphology to Spirillum periplaneticum Kunstler and Gineste, but it was believed that S.
In Spirorbis Pagenstecheri they develop inside the opercular tentacle, and in Spirorbis spirillum inside the tube of the parent.
In that year, however, Koch greatly added to our knowledge by isolating a spirillumfrom the intestine and in the dejecta of persons suffering from the disease.
The weak one is made from pure cultures of Koch's spirillum of Asiatic cholera, attenuated by growth to several generations on agar or broth at 39°C.
The growth of the spirillum of cholera is opposed by Bacillus pyogenes fœtidus.
Spirillum from the blood in a case of relapsing fever, X 700 (Koch).
His results go to confirm the view that the spirillum of Obermeier is the essential cause of relapsing fever.
Spirillum (Spirochæta of Ehrenberg) has its best ascertained example in the minute forms first observed by Obermeier, and afterward by many other observers, in the blood of patients suffering with relapsing fever.
Relapsing fever is an epidemic contagious disease, the specific cause of which is not certainly known, although a peculiar spirillum appears to be constantly present in the blood.
At the height of the fever the spirillum appears in the blood as an attenuated, worm-like creature, actively struggling and squirming among the blood corpuscles.
For the tick that carries the spirillum is blind and cannot climb any smooth surface.
When he bites an infected person he does not contract the Spirillumfever himself, nor does he transmit it directly to other persons.
