Inhibition of Pigment Formation of Serratia marcescens by Chloramphenicol, Aureomycin, and Terramycin
- 1 March 1952
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Frontiers Media SA in Experimental Biology and Medicine
- Vol. 79 (3) , 539-540
- https://doi.org/10.3181/00379727-79-19438
Abstract
Chloramphenicol, aureomycin, and terramycin inhibit the production of the tripyrrylmethane pigment of S. marcescens ("prodigiosin") over a wide range of concns., at which the growth of the organism is not inhibited.Keywords
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