Vibrio

(vib’re-o), pl. vibrio'nes [LJ]. A form or genus of schizomycetous microérganisms resembling spirilla, but longer and le screw-like. V. One who prac- aquat’ilis Giinther, a species resembling the spirillum of cholera: derived from river water.. au’reus, a species from the air and mud of sewers: in immotile, polymorphous’ filaments; it forms a golden-yellow pigment. V. berolinen’- sis, a species from the river water of Berlin, resembling the cholera spirillum. V. flaves’cens, a species from sewer-mud and air, like V. au’reus, but producing ἃ greenish-yellow pigment. V. /vus, a species from the air and mud of sewers, like V. au’reus, but forming an ochraceous pigment. ‘lis, a form much resembling the cholera spirillum, from mice inoculated with the coating of the tongue: toxic, but said not to be pathogenic. V. maszau’ah, a pathogenic organism from the dejections of a local epidemic at Ma owah resembling cholera: it is much like the cholera bacillus, but has four flagella and is more pathogenic. V. mete. ‘o’vii, a species closely resembling the germ of Asiatic cholera, from a kind of chicken cholera; actively motile: it causes a deadly septicemia. V. nasa’lis, a form in non-motile, curved rods from the buccal cavity and nasal mucus: pathogenic to animals. Pasteur’s v., the organism of malignant edema. V. pro’teus, the Finkler-Prior bacillus, from feces: in motile, curved rods, le curved than the cholera spirillum; actively pathogenic: its cultures produce cadaver in. V. sapro’philes, a species in three forms (I, II, and III) from sewer-mud, etc.: actively motile; not pathogenic. V. schuylkillien’ sis, a pathogenic spirillum from the water of the Schuylkill, at Philadelphia: closely related to V. metchniko’ vii. vibri (vi-bris’e) [L.]. The hairs within the nostrils; also the whiskers of a cat.