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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2008 Jun 27;49(11):4931–4938. doi: 10.1167/iovs.08-2276

Figure 1. Modified string test for determination of the hypermucoviscocity phenotype of K. pneumoniae.

Figure 1

Representative photographs of stretched, mucoviscous strings from a single colony of HMV+ or HMV− K. pneumoniae. The formation of a mucoid string >5 mm is regarded as a hypermucoviscous phenotype.22