The Virulence of Biochemical Variants of Free

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SUMMARY: Two biochemical variants were obtained from a strain of , type 19. One variant, known as ‘starch-positive’, always produced amylomaltase, readily forming starch from maltose. The other variant, known as ‘starch-negative’, did not usually form starch from maltose in the same cultural conditions. The starch-positive variant had low mouse virulence and the starch-negative variant had high mouse virulence. The starch positive variant was avirulent for the rat, but the starch-negative variant had some rat virulence. Both variants had plenty of M antigen in precipitin tests and showed good anti-phagocytic power both in bactericidal tests with human blood and in surface phagocytosis tests with isolated human leukocytes. The mouse virulence of the starch-positive variant was enhanced by casein polypeptide and by human plasma. Starch-positive and starch-negative variants obtained from a type 12 strain also had the same properties.

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