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In a survey test of 77 satisfactory cultures of 40 bacterial types, fibrinolytic phenomena were encountered in 19 types (33 cultures) of bacteria tested. Only certain hemolytic streptococci and staphylococci gave positive results with a specific test for lysokinase, however, and these organisms were not directly fibrinolytic nor able to activate bovine profibrinolysin. Direct fibrinolytic activity may occur in cultures when (except in the case of Cl. Botulinum) it is not found in the alcoholic precipitate. The failure to obtain a lysokinase in at least 6 types of bacterial cultures which gave good results in the survey test is disappointing, as is the failure to find a kinase for bovine profibrinolysin.
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