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THERE are no reports of the direct isolation of myco-plasmas from human leukaemic blood or blood-forming organs, although the direct isolation of mycoplasmas from the blood of a few septic patients has been claimed1–4. In the present investigation, mycoplasmas were isolated from broth cultures seeded with three bone marrow samples obtained on the same day from one of three children suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (Table 1).
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HAYFLICK, L., KOPROWSKI, H. Direct Agar Isolation of Mycoplasmas from Human Leukaemic Bone Marrow. Nature 205, 713–714 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/205713b0
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