The metabolism of coumarin and c-coumaric acid by plant and animals has been studied fairly extensively but only a few trials have been reported with microorganisms. A number of fungi including strains of Penicillium and Fusarium were shown to metabolise coumarin and c-coumaric acid. Umbelliferone, dihydrocoumarin, melilotic acid and cis-cis-mucomic acid, have been identified as products of coumarin degradation. [...]

The term "chromogenic mycobacteria" is but one of several commonly used to describe acid-fast bacilli which differ from M. tuberculosis, and which for the past ten years have been isolated from clinical specimens with steadily increasing frequency. Additional terms which have been used in recent scientific literature and which are usually, but not necessarily synonymous with "chromogenic mycobacteria", include: "atypica", "anonymous" , "paratubercle", "unclassified", "nontuberculous acid-fast bacilli", "unidentified mycobacteria", and "MOTT bacilli" (mycobacteria-other-than tubercle-bacilli). The terms "yellow bacilli", "orange bacilli", and "Battey" refer to specific varieties within the general group. The current trend in terminology favors "unclassified" as suggested by the American Thoracic Society (1961), but the American Review of Respiratory Diseases in recent months (1964) has indicated its intention to use only the term "atypical". [...]

The culture filtrates of Lancefield group A, Griffith type 12 nephritogenic streptococci have been shown by Reed and Matheson (1954) to produce renal lesions, urinary abnormalities, and sustalned hypertension in rabbits. The nephrotoxic substance is dialysable and can be salted out from the concentrated dialysate at 60-75% of full saturation with ammonium sulfate. Matheson (1957) has shown that this fraction contains a mixture of polypeptides which are nephrotoxic in rabbits and Rhesus monkeys (Reed and Matheson 1960). The polypeptides have been separated electrophoretically and Cheuk (1960) has found that one polypeptide band contains more nephrotoxic activity than the other observable bands. [...]

The in vitro synthesis of serum proteins or specific antibodies by tissues has been the subject of several investigations (Stavitsky, 1961). Tissue culture fluids have been examined for the presence of serum proteins or antibodies by several methods, many of which have involved the use of radioisotopes. Radioactively labelled omino acids have been added to tissue culture media and subsequently the synthesized label led proteins detected. In other studies, antigens labelled with radioisotopes have been added to tissue culture fluids to detect small amounts of antibody. [...]

The following information, as revealed in these studies, is claimed to be a contribution to knowledge. A bacterium and a fungus identified as a Pseudomonas sp. and a Penicillium sp. were isolated by the soil perfusion enrichment technique, and are able to utilize phloroglucinol as the sole carbon source in a medium containing various inorganic salts. [...]

Although the first dishwashing machine was patented in 1879 (45), it was quite some time before any interest was shown in the possibility of improperly cleansed eating utensils acting as vectors for the transmission of diseases. [...]

Since the pioneer work of Bruce White (1926) and the adoption of the Kauffmann-White Antigenic Schema in 1934, the number of Salmonella serotypes has increased tremendously. At the time of writing, the number of recognized types is 363. [...]

That all elements which are part of living organisms must be present in their environment, if they shall be in a position to propogate, is axiomatic. However the form in which these elements are useful for the building of cells, differs widely for various organisms. [...]

Pyocyanine is a blue pigment characterized by the basic phenazine structure. Several other pigments were isolated from bacterial origins which contained the phenazine "nucleus." The similarities between these chemical compounds and their relation to phenazine are more readily observed by a comparison of structural formulae. [...]

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