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...Cocci and diplococci have been recognized in cultures of tubercle bacilli for at least 15 years. They probably get there from the air, where they abound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: T. B. in a Tube | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

...attentive physicians what he had been doing to some tubercle bacilli. Culturing them in a sterile glycerin broth, he had added some sterile litmus milk, put the flask in a cupboard at room temperature. The deadly, rod-shaped bacilli slowly disappeared, transmuted into round-shaped bacteria called cocci and diplococci. These bacteria, he explained, produce an acid which destroys their progenitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: T. B. in a Tube | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

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