INDISTINCT BACTERIAL STRAINS. “In many laboratory notebooks, there are results of tests of a few strains of different species that gave promise of great usefulness in characterizing species, but, after application of these tests to more strains of each species, the great promise dwindled to nothing because we are dealing with spectra of strains or sections of a spectrum, not with compact packages of strains.”
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