1. Of 585 strains of lactose-fermenting aerobes each isolated from faeces of a different person, 501 did not utilise citrate or ferment cellobiose; 20 were citrate negative and cellobiose positive; 27 were cellobiose negative and citrate positive; and 37 were positive to both tests.2. Almost 10 per cent, of the strains isolated were indol negative.3. One culture was methyl-red negative and Voges-Proskauer positive. Two were positive to both tests. The rest were methyl-red positive and Voges-Proskauer negative.4. It is concluded that the results are not favourable to the use of the citrate or the cellobiose test in routine water analysis.5. A discussion of the taxonomy of the lactose-fermenting aerobes is given. Only two species,Bacterium coli(Escherich) L. and N., andBacterium aerogenes(Escherich) Chester, are recognised.
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