[Assessment of the condition of the population of gonococcal cultures].
Application of the method of oblique illumination permitted to reveal nonhomogeneousness of the cultures isolated from the patients with a different (acute and torpid) course of the disease. Passage of the freshly-isolated cultures on the nutrient media led to the appearance of mutants characterized by the fluorescence of the third type which also characterized all the 48 museum cultures stored for a long time on the nutrient media. The method suggested permits not only to evaluate the gonococcal cultures condition but also to carry out their directed selection.
D001431:Bacteriological Techniques; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009154:Mutation; D009344:Neisseria gonorrhoeae / Q000254:growth & development*
Otsenka sostoianiia populiatsii gonokokkovykh kul'tur