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IT has been found that a recently isolated strain of Acetobacter caused yeasts to die when both organisms were present in a nutrient medium in full screw-capped bottles. In a typical test full McCartney bottles of beer were inoculated with 5 × 105 cells per ml. of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and amounts of a suspension of a washed culture of Acetobacter were added to different bottles to give counts of from 0 to 50 × 105 cells per ml. The numbers of viable yeasts were determined daily by methylene blue staining during incubation at 25°, with the results shown in Fig. 1.
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GILLILAND, R., LACEY, J. Lethal Action by an Acetobacter on Yeasts. Nature 202, 727–728 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/202727a0
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