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THE antibiotic activity of the edible mushroom Psalliota xanthoderma was first described in some detail by Atkinson1 in Australia. Wilkins2 in England also recorded this mushroom as being antibiotic. Atkinson gave a number of characteristics of the antibiotic substance and also a list of sensitive and insensitive bacterial species, but refrained from naming the substance as a new antibiotic. Its peculiar and haphazard lability defeated attempts to concentrate and purify it, and the work was temporarily abandoned as the mushroom supply ran out.
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Atkinson, N., Aust. J. Exp. Biol., 24, 169 (1946); Med. J. Aust., 1, 605 (1949).
Wilkins, W. H., Ann. App. Biol., 33, 188 (1946).
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ATKINSON, N. Psalliotin, the Antibiotic of Psalliota xanthoderma . Nature 174, 598 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/174598a0
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