A Microorganism Decomposing Group-Specific A Substances
- 1 October 1938
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 36 (4), 383-390
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.36.4.383-390.1938
Abstract
A coccoid bacterium actively destroying various Group A substances, from human A saliva, horse saliva, pig pepsin and gastric mucin, was isolated from leaf mold. It fails to grow on most common media but can be cultivated on A substance or peptones rich in the latter. Two types of media were developed. A number of sugars are utilized without frank production of acid or gas. The organism destroys serological activity of 2% solutions of the A preparations following which only traces of substances of polysaccharide nature can be recovered. No exoenzyme was demonstrated.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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