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THE testing of the antibacterial activity of fungus (Basidiomycete) metabolism solutions in this Laboratory is done by floating a 10-mm. disk cut from an agar-plate colony of the fungus, on 25 ml. of the medium, usually potato dextrose agar or malt agar, and testing the metabolism solution so produced every five days by the method previously described1 against agar plates bulk-seeded with the test bacteria, Bacterium coli and Staphylococcus aureus respectively. The result is expressed as the diameter of the area of the bacterial inhibition in millimetres.
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Wilkins, W. H., Ann. App. Biol., 36, 257 (1949).
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WILKINS, W., REES, J. Production of Antibacterial Metabolism Solutions by Fungi. Nature 166, 949–950 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/166949b0
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