PRODUCTION OF FILTERABLE PARTICLES BY CELLVIBRIO GILVUS

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Abstract
Experiments with both fritted glass and porcelain; bacteriological filters indicated that C. gilvus regularly produces filterable particles which regenerate normal bacterial cells without subculture. Dark field microscopic observations suggested the presence of a life cycle involving the enlargement of minute particles into normal cells, the swelling of normal cells into irregular large bodies, and the appearance of motile particles and cells which finally emerge from the large bodies.
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