THE INDUCTION OF CORDING IN AN AVIRULENT VARIANT OF MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS
- 1 September 1955
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 70 (3) , 353-354
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.70.3.353-354.1955
Abstract
Micrococcus epidermidis secretes a soluble, heat stable, nondialyzable substance which enables Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain H37Ra, an avirulent variant of the human pathogen H37Rv, to grow with formation of serpentine cords characteristic of the growth of H37Rv.Keywords
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