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Testing culture purity in prokaryotes: criteria and challenges.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek - 1 Sept 2018
Pinevich Alexander V, Andronov Eugeny E, Pershina Elizaveta V, Pinevich Agnia A, Dmitrieva Helena Y
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Reliance on pure cultures was introduced at the beginning of microbiology as a discipline and has remained significant although their adaptive properties are essentially dissimilar from those of mixed cultures and environmental populations. They are needed for (i) taxonomic identification; (ii) diagnostics of pathogens; (iii) virulence and pathogenicity studies; (iv) elucidation of metabolic properties; (v)...
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