Production of L forms of the plague microbe

Dunaev, G.S.; Zykin, L.F.; Prozorovskiĭ, S.V.; Kostiukovskiĭ, V.M.; Kurilov, V.I.

Zhurnal Mikrobiologii Epidemiologii i Immunobiologii 10: 85-89

1978


ISSN/ISBN: 0372-9311
PMID: 747008
Document Number: 128491
Experiments were conducted in vitro. The process of formation of unstable L-form cultures of Pasteurella pestis under the effect of penicillin was studied. A comparatively high frequency of this phenomenon in various strains was demonstrated. A possible role of the L-transformation process in the persistence of the causative agent in the organism of wild animals in endemic foci of infection is put forward.

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