Cultural Requirements of the Fowl-Coryza Bacillus

Abstract

DeBlieck (1932), Nelson (1933), Eliot and Lewis (1934), Delaplane and Stuart (1934) and Schalm and Beach (1934) have reported the isolation from chickens affected with infectious coryza on farms in Holland, New Jersey, Maryland, Rhode Island and California, respectively, of a hemophilia bacillus with which a coryza of short duration can regularly be produced in susceptible chickens. DeBlieck pointed out its similarity to the influenza bacillus of man, both in its morphology and cultural requirements, and proposed the name Bacillus haemoglobinophilus-coryzae- gallinarum. Eliot and Lewis proposed the binomial Hemophilus