Susceptibilities of transparent, opaque, and rough colonial variants of Mycobacterium avium complex to various fatty acids | Zendy

Hajime Saito | Zendy; Hiromi Tomioka | Zendy

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Susceptibilities of transparent, opaque, and rough colonial variants of Mycobacterium avium complex to various fatty acids

Author(s) -

Hajime Saito,

Hiromi Tomioka

Publication year - 1988

Publication title -

antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.07

H-Index - 259

eISSN - 1070-6283

pISSN - 0066-4804

DOI - 10.1128/aac.32.3.400

Subject(s) - mycobacterium , paratuberculosis , microbiology and biotechnology , opacity , biology , mycobacterium avium complex , capric acid , genetics , bacteria , lauric acid , fatty acid , biochemistry , physics , optics

Three different colonial variants of Mycobacterium avium complex were studied for their susceptibilities to capric, lauric, oleic, and linolenic acids. Smooth T variants with transparent and irregularly shaped colonies were much more resistant to all the fatty acids than were the smooth D variants with opaque and dome-shaped colonies. Rough variants with granular and irregularly shaped colonies showed nearly the same susceptibility to the fatty acids as did the smooth T variants.

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