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MUCH of the work on continuous culture of bacteria has been carried out with aerobic bacteria, though little has been done with strict anaerobes. Most of the important rumen bacteria are strict anaerobes requiring highly reduced media1. This communication gives a brief description of a comparatively cheap apparatus which has been successfully used to grow rumen bacteria in continuous culture under highly anaerobic conditions for long periods.
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Hobson, P. N., and Mann, S. O., J. Gen. Microbiol., 25, 227 (1961).
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HOBSON, P., SMITH, W. Continuous Culture of Rumen Bacteria. Nature 200, 607–608 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/200607a0
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