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WITHIN the last two or three years several investigators1–4 have reported in these columns that certain Protozoa growing in sewage possess the power of causing flocculation of the bacteria on which they feed, a property which is obviously of value to the organisms themselves, since it facilitates the collection of food bacteria, and may also be of importance in sewage purification.
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WATSON, J. Mechanism of Bacterial Flocculation caused by Protozoa. Nature 155, 271–272 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155271b0
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