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Document Type

Research

Abstract

Organisms were isolated from activated sludge and a sprinkling filter utilized for creamy waste purification. Their ability to utilize sugar without acid production and to decompose lactic acid was studied. When inoculated into a medium consisting of 0.1% glucose, 0.075% (NH4)2, HPO4, and 0.02% KCl, adjusted to pH 6.4, growth without acid production occurred in eleven out of the thirty-nine organisms studied. With a similar medium, using lactose instead of glucose, growth with an absence of acid appeared in seventeen of thirty-nine organisms. Growth in most cases was slight, and but little of the sugar was decomposed, as determined by Fehling's solution.

Publication Date

1925

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

32

Issue

1

First Page

96

Last Page

96

Copyright

©1925 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

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