Submicroscopical changes in Klebsiella pneumoniae cells treated with concentrated sucrose and polyethylene glycol 400 solutions
- 1 May 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Applied Bacteriology
- Vol. 60 (5), 375-379
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2672.1986.tb05081.x
Abstract
This study reports the extent and character of plasmolysis and other morphological changes as shown by electron microscopy in a strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae and with sucrose or polyethylene glycol 400(PEG-400) as the plasmolysing agent at a water activity of 0.935. Both solutes produced severe plasmolysis in K. pneumoniae cells; PEG-400 also caused some cell wall collapse and fingerlike extrusions to emerge from the bacterial cell.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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