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pure cultureIn microbiology, laboratory culture containing a single species of organism. A pure culture is usually derived from a mixed culture (containing many species) by methods that separate the individual cells so that, when they multiply, each will form an individually distinct colony, which may then be used to establish new cultures with the assurance that only one type of organism will be present. Pure cultures may be more easily isolated if the growth medium of the original mixed culture favours the growth of one organism to the exclusion of others. |
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| The availability of strains in pure culture will enable investigation into resistance mechanisms, and work in progress indicates that mutations in region-V of the 23S-rDNA explain the azithromycin resistance (J. A family book is pure culture, unadulterated, fixed. After exposure of the native community to MTBE in microcosms, additional inputs of MTBE were degraded at rates similar to those measured for the pure culture of strain PM1. |
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