The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 39, 289-302,
Copyright, 1924, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York
STUDIES ON BACTERIAL NUTRITION
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V. THE EFFECT OF PLANT TISSUE UPON THE GROWTH OF ANAEROBIC BACILLI.
Oswald T. Avery M.D.1 and
Hugh J. Morgan M.D.1
1 From the Hospital of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
1. Certain anaerobic bacteria grow under aerobic conditions in plain broth in the presence of sterile unheated plant tissue.
2. Aerobic growth of anaerobic bacteria under the above conditions may be related to the presence of growth-accessory substances, and to the action of oxidizing-reducing systems of plant tissue in the destruction of toxic peroxides of bacterial origin.
Submitted on September 24, 1923