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CHEMOTACTIC ACTIVITY OF L‐FORMS AND MYCOPLASMA
Author(s) -
Harwick Herbert J,
Kalmanson George M,
Guze Lucien B
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
australian journal of experimental biology and medical science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.999
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1440-1711
pISSN - 0004-945X
DOI - 10.1038/icb.1977.41
Subject(s) - chemotaxis , microbiology and biotechnology , mycoplasma hominis , mycoplasma , proteus mirabilis , escherichia coli , mycoplasma pneumoniae , biology , streptococcus pneumoniae , antibiotics , medicine , biochemistry , gene , receptor , pneumonia
Summary L‐forms of Streptococcus faecalis, Escherichia coli and Proteus mirabilis showed significantly less chemotactic activity for normal human leucocytes than did parent bacterial forms which were strongly chemotactic. Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Mycoplasma hominis did not demonstrate chemotactic activity.