title: [Trial use of polymyxin and erythromycin for isolating cultures of the plague microbe in the Kyzyl-Kum].
abstract: It is recommended that the Hottinger agar medium with polymyxin or erythromycin be used for isolation of pure cultures of the plague microbe from specimens containing various species of microorganisms, except Proteus. Such a procedure was used in the Kizil-Kum for the bacteriological examinations with respect to plague. The procedure may be used in the natural foci with the strains resistant to these antibiotics.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001431:Bacteriological Techniques; D003889:Desert Climate; D004917:Erythromycin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011113:Polymyxins / Q000494:pharmacology*; D012377:Rodentia / Q000382:microbiology / Q000469:parasitology; D014610:Uzbekistan; D015010:Yersinia pestis / Q000302:isolation & purification*
chemical_list: D011113:Polymyxins; D004917:Erythromycin
vernacular_title: Opyt ispol'zovaniia polimiksina i éritromitsina dlia vydeleniia kul'tur chumnogo mikroba v Kyzylkumakh.