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. 1968 Nov;16(11):1655–1662. doi: 10.1128/am.16.11.1655-1662.1968

Modified Biochemical Tests for Characterization of L-Phase Variants of Bacteria1

Richard L Cohen 1,2, Ruth G Wittler 1,2, John E Faber 1,2
PMCID: PMC547735  PMID: 4302280

Abstract

Biochemical capabilities of bacterial and L-phase organisms of 15 bacterial strains were examined by using a variety of modified routine diagnostic biochemical tests. The results demonstrated that 13 of the tests examined were suitable for use with L-phase variants, that L-phase variants and revertant bacterial phase organisms retained diagnostically significant capabilities of the respective bacterial or L-phase organisms from which they were derived, and that the 13 biochemical tests could be usefully employed to relate a given L-phase variant to a given bacterial phase organism, to distinguish L-phase variants of different species, and to aid in the identification of nonreverting L-phase variants.

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