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Soil bacteria parasitic on Azotobacteriaceae

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Deliberate enrichment of garden soil led to the isolation of anAchromobacter 1 capable of lysing various Azotobacteriaceae on agar plates. Lysis was less pronounced in liquid media; attempts to demonstrate diffusible lytic factors were not successful. Thirty-four other microbes, freshly isolated from soils or obtained from collections, had no activity; two strains out of seven ofPseudomonas aeruginosa showed some degree of lytic action.

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Postgate, J.R. Soil bacteria parasitic on Azotobacteriaceae. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 33, 113–120 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02045541

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