Hoffmanni

A non-pathogenic member of the diphtheria group, also known as the pseudo diphtheria b. b. of hog cholera. A b. resembling the paratyphoid b. in its cultural characteristics but not agglutinating with high dilutions of patients suffering from paratyphoid infection. The organism producing the ulceration and fibrinous inflammation of the intestines in hog cholera. B. icteroides. A facultative aerobic, non-liquefying, motile b., pathogenic in most mammals and a erted by Sanerelli, its discoverer, to be the specific organism of yellow fever. The organism is now regarded as an intestinal saprophyte, resembling the b. of hog It cholera in its cultural characteristics. does not produce this disease in hogs and will not agglutinate in high dilutions with the blood from cases of hog cholera, b. of