One knows that, experimentally, a small dose of toxin, given immediately after or before the inoculation of the microorganism producing the toxin, renders this microorganism more virulent.
The following are the more important bacteria we meet in surgical conditions: Staphylococcus pyogenes aureus--a microorganism producing yellow pus.
This disease is caused by a microorganism known as the spirochaeta pallida or treponema pallidum of Schaudinn and Hoffmann.
A microorganism which normally grows on dead matter.
This microorganism has been isolated from aborting cows in various European countries and in the United States.
He succeeded in culturing the new microorganism and found it to be pathogenic when injected into, but not when fed to, the cockroaches.
This protozoan is commonly parasitized by the microorganism Sphaerita.
In spite of the foregoing statements the consensus of opinion of eminent investigators points to malignant catarrh as being of specific origin; that is, due to some form of microorganism the contagious character of which is poorly developed.
