Micro-aerophilic conditions

Perego et al. (20) found that during the fermentation of hemicellu-lose hydrolysates by Candida shehatae, the addition of 50 mM acetone resulted in ethanol yields comparable with those obtained under micro-aerophilic conditions. Thus, the addition of 50 mM acetone to the culture... 

Though the complete pathway to coenzyme 4 in the micro-aerophilic organism, Pr. shermanii, is not yet available, much is known and a brief comparison with the fully mapped route used in the aerobic Ps. denitrificans now follows. Micro-aerophihc means almost anaerobically and under these conditions Pr. shermanii biosynthesises cobyrinic acid 58, Scheme 18, and some of its amide derivatives. The nucleotide loop, however, is constructed only in the presence of oxygen [122]. 

Under the conditions selected, 184 probes comprising 33 aerobic and micro aerophilic clinical strains (5-7 antibiotics per strain) were examined both by optimized BA and DM or SDM. The following criteria for assessment of antibiotic susceptibility of pathogen using BA were determined (Table 1). 

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