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CERTAIN organic nitro-compounds, for example, chloramphenicol, are known to arise biologically; but very little is known about the transformation of this class of compounds by micro-organisms. Erikson1 and Moore2 found that certain Actino-mycetes could utilize picric acid, trinitroresorcinol, and nitrobenzene, and Simpson and Evans3 have reported briefly on species of Pseudomonas that decompose o- and p-nitrophenol with the formation of nitrite; the last workers also mention nitrite production from 2,4-dinitrophenol and chloramphenicol.
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Moore, F. W., J. Gen. Microbiol., 3, 143 (1949).
Simpson, J. R., and Evans, W. C., Biochem. J., 55, (2), xxiv (1953).
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JENSEN, H., GUNDERSEN, K. Biological Decomposition of Aromatic Nitro-compounds. Nature 175, 341 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/175341a0
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