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IT has been suggested that the bacterial cell may vary in its response to antiseptics with age (Chick1, Sherman and Albus2, Hinshelwood3, and Jacobs4). Until recently, it has been customary to describe bacteria as old or young according to the length of time for which the cultures have been incubated. If an individual cell is regarded as new-born the moment it has separated from its parent/sister and old-aged the moment before such separation occurs, it is clear that in any randomly growing culture there will always be present cells of all ages.
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SRIVASTAVA, R., THOMPSON, R. Influence of Bacterial Cell Age on Phenol Action. Nature 206, 216 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/206216a0
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