Meanings
- not comparableNot acid-proof.
The culture could be rendered nonacid-proof by continual growth under conditions unfavorable to the synthesis of fats.
1914, T.F. Hunt, “California Station, Bulletin 241”, in Experiment Station Record: U.S. Department of Agriculture, volume 30, page 7822 more examples
As described by him the organism so cultivated was highly pleomorphic, with branched, acid-proof and nonacid-proof stages.
1916, Edwin Oakes Jordan, A Text-book of General Bacteriology, page 400At 37 °C established nonacid-proof grainy long sticks (10–15 microns), nonacid-proof and acid-proof single grains. Mycobacteriа of original culture – nonacid-proof short sticks and grains and only single nonacid-proof long sticks.
2016, A. Tkachenko, M. Bilan, H. Glebenyuk, Y. Sokol, L. Gordiyenko, “Elucidation of the biological activity and the" purity" of the culture dissociative forms of m. Bovis”, in News of Dnipropetrovsk State Agrarian and Economic University: Veterinary Sciences, number 2
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