actinomyces

He soon became expert enough to spot an actinomyces colony at a glance. For Albert Schatz, the quest for the wonder microbe in this chaos of nature owed more to intuition than any systematic scientific search. "If you ask me why I picked one colony of actinomyces over another, I cannot tell you. There was no rationale for picking one colony of an actinomyces over another. Naturally if aplate had five colonies which morphologically and grossly looked alike, I would not pick all five."

1992, Frank Ryan, Tuberculosis: The Greatest Story Never Told : the Human Story of the Search for the Cure for Tuberculosis and the New Global Threat, →ISBN, page 215

An sspAB double mutant was generated and the resulting effects were additive; however, it retained a single previously unrecognized lactose-inhibitable coaggregation with an actinomyces coaggregation group D representative (Figure 3.3, cognate symbol complementary to gray rectangle).

2003, Piet Lens, Biofilms in Medicine, Industry and Environmental Biotechnology: Characteristics, Analysis and Control, →ISBN, page 40

Waksman wrote in his autobiography: " … It is the first attempt that has ever been made to grow an actinomyces on a large scale, to attempt to utilize an actinomyces for any practical purpose, or even to find any use whatsoever for this obscure group of micro-organisms." Unfortunately, the initial excitement did not last long: actinomycin certainly killed the pathogens, but it killed laboratory animals too. Woodruff pressed on …

2007, D. A. Hopwood, Streptomyces in Nature and Medicine: The Antibiotic Makers, page 22