Abstract
The growth of fastidious atypical strains of the fish pathogen Aeromonas salmonicida on both solid and liquid media was dependent specifically on a source of heme which was apparently required for initiation of growth at low inoculum densities. Thus, hemin enhanced the plating efficiencies of such strains on solid medium and significantly reduced their inoculum-size-dependent lag times in broth. The heme requirement could also be satisfied by hematoporphyrin and, less effectively, by hemoglobin. Since the requirement was a stable property of all 17 strains tested, it may prove to be another taxonomic criterion by which the atypical strains can be differentiated from the typical strains of A. salmonicida.
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