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An apparatus for studying interactions of bacteria in continuous culture has been described. It was shown that, in the dynamic situation of continuously renewed nutrient, growth of V. cholerae is partially suppressed in the presence of growing enterococci and lactobacilli, and that the inhibition was due largely or entirely to the enterococcus and took place under both aerobic and anaerobic conditions.
The fundamental cause of the inhibition of cholera vibrios by enterococci is not known, but is not due to the inhibitory effect of variation of hydrogen ion concentration, and probably cannot be attributed to competition for nutrients.
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