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. 1968 Nov;16(11):1655-62.
doi: 10.1128/am.16.11.1655-1662.1968.

Modified biochemical tests for characterization of L-phase variants of bacteria

R L Cohen, R G Wittler, J E Faber

Modified biochemical tests for characterization of L-phase variants of bacteria

R L Cohen et al. Appl Microbiol. 1968 Nov.

Abstract

Biochemical capabilities of bacterial and L-phase organisms of 15 bacterial strains were examined by using a variety of modified routine diagnostic biochemical tests. The results demonstrated that 13 of the tests examined were suitable for use with L-phase variants, that L-phase variants and revertant bacterial phase organisms retained diagnostically significant capabilities of the respective bacterial or L-phase organisms from which they were derived, and that the 13 biochemical tests could be usefully employed to relate a given L-phase variant to a given bacterial phase organism, to distinguish L-phase variants of different species, and to aid in the identification of nonreverting L-phase variants.

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