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Applied Microbiology
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Abstract:
Degradation of ethylene glycol in Middlebrook 7H-10 agar medium by 26 out of 29 strains of the taxon rhodochrous seems to permit its separation from rapidly growing mycobacteria and certain actinomycetes which only exceptionally showed this property.
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