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EXCEPT for some experiments by Meredith1 with Jamaican soils, little information is available on the presence in tropical habitats of antibiotic-producing micro-organisms. Using a technique similar to that of Stokes and Woodward2, we are finding increasing evidence that tropical soils harbour such organisms, sometimes types which have not yet been identified.
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Meredith, C. H., Phytopath., 34, 426 (1944).
Stokes, J. L., and Woodward, C. R., jun., J. Bact., 43, 253 (1942).
Conn, H. J., Bact. Rev., 12, 247 (1948).
Brian, D. W., J. Gen. Microbiol., 2, xvii (1948).
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THAYSEN, A., FORSYTH, W., THAYSEN, I. et al. Organisms Producing Antibiotics in Tropical Soils. Nature 163, 835 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163835a0
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