Clostridium synonyms

The bacterium, Clostridium pasteurianum, common in most soils, is able to utilize free nitrogen under anaerobic conditions, and an organism known as Azotobacter chroococcum and some others closely allied to it, have similar powers which they can exercise under aerobic conditions.

Schizomycetes such as Clostridium, Plectridium, &c., where the sporiferous cells enlarge, bear out the same argument, and we must not forget that there are extremely minute " yeasts," easily mistaken for Micrococci, and that yeasts occasionally form only one spore in the cell.

Various stages in the development of the endogenous spores in a Clostridium - the small letters indicate the order.

Clostridium - one cell contains two spores.

Those which do not need oxygen are called anaerobes, e.g. Clostridium perfringens and Clostridium botulinum.