Studies on Staphylococci

Studies on lysogeny in staphylococci.

A staphylococcus typing phage (NCTC 8426) was found to form lysogenic systems with three strains of staphylococci. In the case of two of these strains, staphylococci lysogenically infected with the typing phage were now lysed by the temperate phages they had previously carried. This loss of immunity was due to the replacement of the originally carried prophage by the prophage of phage 8426. Thi...

Fibrinogen media for studies on staphylococci.

Deneke, Anneliese (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and Hans Blobel. Fibrinogen media for studies on staphylococci. J. Bacteriol. 83:533-537. 1962-Fibrinogen media were prepared simply by spreading rabbit plasma or a bovine fibrinogen solution over the surface of certain solidified agar media, thus eliminating the necessity of incorporation of fibrinogen into liquefied agar media at a critical...

Studies on Staphylococci from the Bovine Udder : I. Biological Characteristics of Staphylococci and Some Observations on the Pathogenic Strains

Transport, nutritional and metabolic studies of taurine in staphylococci.

A specific, Na+-dependent, energy-requiring transport system for taurine has been reported recently in the Staphylococcus aureus M strain. Taurine was taken up vigorously by all S. aureus strains tested. The system was Na+-dependent, and Na+ decreased the Km but had no effect on the Vmax of the transport system. Among coagulase-negative staphylococci, the Staphylococcus epidermidis group (a tax...

The Significance of Sodium Chloride in Studies of Staphylococci.