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. 1970 Dec;104(3):1399–1400. doi: 10.1128/jb.104.3.1399-1400.1970

Isolation of Bacillary and Streptococcal Variants from Bacterionema matruchotii

Joseph L Streckfuss 1, Willard N Smith 1
PMCID: PMC248306  PMID: 16559122

Abstract

Bacterionema matruchotii, an oral filamentous organism, dissociated to form unusual flat colonies. Subculture of the flat colonies, composed of diphtheroids, yielded pure cultures of bacillary and streptococcal variants.

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