Alkaligenes faecalis in incubator humidifiers

Bacterium Faecalis Alkaligenes in Calcutta

A Case of Bacteræmia Caused by Bacterium Alkaligenes Faecalis

B. Faecalis alkaligenes infections with a report of a case of septicaemia.

Microbial prevalence in domestic humidifiers.

The prevalence of viable thermophilic bacteria and actinomycetes and mesophilic fungi was examined in 145 samples from 110 domestic humidifiers. A total of 72 and 43% of furnace and console humidifier samples, respectively, contained viable thermophilic bacteria, whereas 60 and 72% of these samples produced mesophilic fungal growth. Thermophilic actinomycetes were recovered from seven humidifie...

'Parenteric' Fever Due to Bact. Fæcalis Alkaligenes

1. A sepoy, aged 30, had fever for 3 days prior to admission and was passing diarrhceic stools. On admission, the patient was of slow disposition, with a slightly toxsemic look; tongne furred; respiration 20; pulse 32; distinct tenderness over the liver region especially over the gall-bladder. No other abnormality found on clinical examination. The patient had two bouts of diarrhoea lasting two...