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The metabolic inhibition test for mycoplasmas based on phosphatase production

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

Auriol C. Hill
Auriol C. Hill
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Laboratory Animals Centre, Woodmansterne Road, Carshalton, Surrey SM5 4EF
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A metabolic inhibition test based upon phosphatase production is described. This is of value for those Mycoplasma species which produce phosphatase but which cannot be examined by the previously published metabolic inhibition techniques.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 79 , Issue 3 , December 1977 , pp. 391 - 393
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1977

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