Metabolic Gas Production by a Variety of Spirochetes

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SYNOPSIS IN INTERLINGUA

LE PRODUCTION DE GAS METABOLIC PER UN VARIETATE DE SPIROCHETES.—Le uso de duo differente typos de medio e le introduction de variationes in le typo de inricchimento seral o in le substantia reductori in le medio completate non afficeva appreciabilemente le capacitate del spirochetes hydrogeno-productori de elaborar ille gas. Le mesme resultatos esseva obtenite quando glucosa esseva omittite ab un del duo medios. Il esseva demonstrate in plus que un treponema productori de gas poteva esseva culturate in massa, con le possibilitate de sedimentar le cellulas per centrifugation e de resuspender los pro un essayage del production de hydrogeno in le microrespirometro de Warburg. Esseva trovate que le intensitate del production de hydrogeno esseva approximativemente equal a illo de bioxydo de carbon.

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