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EARLIER investigations by Szabó1,2 and Tacquet et al.3 of the accumulation of iron in bacterial cells suggested that iron may play a different part in the metabolism of saprophytic mycobacteria. When cultivated on Löwen-stein–Jensen medium containing 1 per cent ferric-ammonium citrate some of the saprophytic strains accumulated iron within the cell, shown by red-pigmentation, whereas other strains did not accumulate iron.
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SZABÓ, I. Inhibition of Mycobacteria by 8-Oxyquinoline as a Taxonomic Characteristic. Nature 212, 1384–1385 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2121384a0
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