This bacillus is found in the tubercles of the skin characteristic of the disease named. It closely resembles the bacillus pneumoniae of Friedlander, and like it possesses a capsule.

In its appearance in cultures and pathogenic relations to animals, it is virtually identical with the bacillus of pneumonia, and it is probably at most a variety of the latter.

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