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Nature 181, 907 - 908 (29 March 1958); doi:10.1038/181907a0

An Antibiotic produced by a Bacillus sp., active against Haemophilus pertussis

A. IAN TIFFIN*

Dept. of Bacteriology, School of Medicine, Leeds, 2.
*Present address: Royal Holloway College (University of London), Englefield Green, Surrey.

A STRAIN of Bacillus (probably B. subtilis) has been found to produce an antibiotic effective against H. pertussis and Neisseria spp. The antibiotic spectrum is somewhat unusual, and although attempts at purification achieved little, the following is a summary of the results1.

  1. Ph. D. thesis, University of Leeds (1953).
  2. Hills, G. M. , Belton, F. C. , and Blatchley, E. D. , Brit. J. Exp. Path., 30, 427 (1949). | PubMed | ISI | ChemPort |



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