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A thermotolerant species of Phormidium produced extracellular anti-microbial material during batch culture. Although this material was inactive when screened against a number of other cyanobacteria, it inhibited the growth of a wide range of Gram-positive and Gram-negative heterotrophic bacteria, Candida albicans and Cladosporium resinae.
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The authors are with the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, UK
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Fish, S.A., Codd, G.A. Bioactive compound production by thermophilic and thermotolerant cyanobacteria (blue-green algae). World Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology 10, 338–341 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00414875
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