CONDUCTIVITY AS APPLIED TO STUDIES OF BACTERIAL METABOLISM II. PARALLELISM BETWEEN AMMONIA AND CONDUCTIVITY IN NUTRIENT GELATIN CULTURES OF PUTREFACTIVE ANAEROBES

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
The conductivity method as a measure of ammonia, formerly proposed and employed in studies of Clostridium flabelliferum and C. sporogenes by the writers, has been applied to cultures of 6 other representative proteolytic anaerobes. The relationship expressed by the equation,[long dash]change in NH3H= change in conduc-tivity X 1.95 X 104,[long dash]held true to within 10% for cultures grown at 20 and 37[degree]C. C. histolylicum gave values better expressed by the constant 1.87 X 104. The method promises to be of considerable use in metabolic studies.

This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: