Affiliation:
1. Department of Civil Engineering and Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Abstract
Cultures of gram-negative bacteria with oxidative glucose metabolism were isolated from surface waters by a highly selective technique, and were classified into 11 types. The predominant type, making up about 50% of the isolated cultures, was cytochrome oxidase-positive, produced fluorescent pigment, and failed to grow at 37 C. A similar type, which differed in being cytochrome oxidase-negative, constituted about 10% of the isolates. Both types of bacteria probably were composed of more than one species. A third type, composed of purple-pigmented pseudomonads, made up approximately 30% of the isolated cultures, and probably represented the predominant species. Other bacterial types isolated constituted less than 10% of the cultures examined.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics,General Immunology and Microbiology,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine
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