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IN 1936, Henriksen1 isolated a Gram-negative rod from the human respiratory tract. This bacillus hæmolysed rabbit blood and was called Bacterium haemolysans. In 1957 a Gram-negative cocco-bacillus (now called 1092 of the National Collection of Dairy Organisms) was isolated from a blood agar plate of a swab of a cow's teat. This culture was hæmolytic and on an ox-blood agar plate the colonies, on superficial examination, might be confused with those of Staphylococcus aureus, because the hæmolysis resembled that produced by β-toxin.
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Cheeseman, G. C., Berridge, N. J., Mattick, A. T. R., and Bottazzi, V., J. App. Bact., 20, 205 (1957).
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GARVIE, E., CHEESEMAN, G. Alcaligenes haemolysans . Nature 181, 1540–1541 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1811540a0
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