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. 1988 Mar;32(3):400–402. doi: 10.1128/aac.32.3.400

Susceptibilities of transparent, opaque, and rough colonial variants of Mycobacterium avium complex to various fatty acids.

H Saito 1, H Tomioka 1
PMCID: PMC172185  PMID: 3364959

Abstract

Three different colonial variants of Mycobacterium avium complex were studied for their susceptibilities to capric, lauric, oleic, and linolenic acids. Smooth T variants with transparent and irregularly shaped colonies were much more resistant to all the fatty acids than were the smooth D variants with opaque and dome-shaped colonies. Rough variants with granular and irregularly shaped colonies showed nearly the same susceptibility to the fatty acids as did the smooth T variants.

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