[Sensitivity of staphylococci to mercury and to deoxycholate]

From the pharingeal mucus of many carriers were isolated 155 strains of staphylococci ascribed, by anaerobic fermentation of glucose and mannite, to the groups St. aureus, St. epidermidis and Micrococcus. The sensibility to chloride of mercury and to desoxicholate was tested by inhibition of development on agar of paper stripes impegnated with the solutions of the indicated substances. A specific corresponsion between the sensibility of inhibitory substance and the biological properties of the staphylococci was not observed. However the more pathogen groups were more sensibles to mercury and the non pathogen to desoxicholate.