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In the early years of microbiological research, scientists coined the term “bacteriolysis” to describe the loss of turbidity of a bacterial culture. Viewing such a population under a microscope revealed that most or even all of the bacteria had disappeared. Today, the definition of bacteriolysis is basically still the same. It is understood as the disintegration of the bacterial shape which is accompanied by a reduced optical density of the culture and by a decline of the number of cells. In this contribution, we are using the term “bacteriolysis” strictly in this sense.
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Giesbrecht, P., Kersten, T., Madela, K., Grob, H., Blümel, P., Wecke, J. (1993). Penicillin Induced Bacteriolysis of Staphylococci as a Post-Mortem Consequence of Murosome-Mediated Killing Via Wall Perforation and Attempts to Imitate this Perforation Process without Applying Antibiotics. In: de Pedro, M.A., Höltje, JV., Löffelhardt, W. (eds) Bacterial Growth and Lysis. Federation of European Microbiological Societies Symposium Series, vol 65. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9359-8_47
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