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Euglena gracilis as a supplementary test organism for detecting biologically active compounds
1Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Folia Microbiologica
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
The mutagenic activity of more than 120 antimicrobial agents and protective components was investigated. Only Kathon showed a consistent increase in revertant counts in the Ames test on Salmonella typhimurium. The hereditary bleaching test on Euglena gracilis used for detecting extranuclear mutations, showed positive results for Kathon, triethanolamine and diamine silver tetraborate.