‘Aerosporin’, an Antibiotic Produced by Bacillus aerosporus Greer

Abstract

A Bacterium isolated from the soil of a market garden in Surrey during February 1946 and afterwards from a Yorkshire soil and from the air has been found to produce an antibiotic of possible therapeutic importance for which, as it appears to be hitherto undescribed, the name ‘Aerosporin’* is proposed. The production and properties of aerosporin are under investigation by a group of workers at the Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories, and the purpose of the present communication is to direct attention to certain aspects of these studies, the results of which will be published in detail elsewhere.