Symptomatic Anthrax is a motile, flagellated, sporogenous, anaerobic, liquefying bacillus about 0.5 u in breadth and 3 to 5 u in length, with rounded ends, found in the lesions of symptomatic anthrax.

Stains

Usual ones. Not by Gram's.

Culture

Is strictly anaerobic. Liquefies gelatin, and in stabs forms gas. Colonies are spherical or slightly irregular in outline. Forms large oval spores that distort the organisms.