title: [Taxonomic characteristics of soil Mycobacteria and their antibiotic properties].
abstract: Morphological, cultural and chemotaxonomic properties of 12 gram-positive soil cultures isolated were studied by using a test system developed for screening the organisms producing broad-spectrum antibiotics among Nocardiaforms (Coryneforms). The cultures were found to belong to Actinomycetales, Nocardioforms, Mycobacteriaceae and Mycobacterium. The saprophytic rapidly growing soil mycobacteria showed antibiotic activity against a large number of gram-positive and gram-negative test microbes including those belonging to Pseudomonas and Proteus resistant to the majority of the antibiotics currently used in medicine.
authors.forename: I O
authors.initials: IO
authors.lastname: Obgol'steva
authors.forename: O S
authors.initials: OS
authors.lastname: Kuznestova
authors.forename: E P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Iakovleva
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D006090:Gram-Negative Bacteria / Q000187:drug effects; D006094:Gram-Positive Bacteria / Q000187:drug effects; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D009161:Mycobacterium / Q000145:classification* / Q000378:metabolism; D012988:Soil Microbiology
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents
vernacular_title: Taksonomicheskaia kharakteristika pochvennykh mikobakteriĭ i izuchenie ikh antibioticheskikh svoĭstv.