A thick-walled organism isolated from the cockroach gut by using a spent medium technique.
By using a conditioning technique whereby complex media are inoculated several times with bacteria from the hindgut of the cockroach Eublaberus posticus, a succession of bacterial types occurred. An obligately anaerobic, pleomorphic, thick-walled, gram-positive organism is described which was isolated by this culturing technique.
Cruden
D L
DL
Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242.
Markovetz
A J
AJ