Toxicity of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Slime.

technique, and 9 of 20 when an anaerobic jar was used). Thus, anaerobic fermentation of mannitol seems to be too exacting a criterion, but all methods using glucose fermentation classified the 20 coagulase-positive strains as staphylococci. The classification of other staphylococci into S. saprophyticus and S. lactis on their ability to produce acetoin from glucose (Shaw et al.) was not supported by the results of tests reported here. Some strains of each of these species were, in the newer tests, classified a's staphylococci and