The Inhibitory Effect of Arginine on Growth of Some Mycoplasmas

摘要

Arginine was inhibitory to many mycoplasmas and, at the commonly‐used concentration of 10 g/l in broth, growth of 15 of the 41 species and subspecies tested was completely inhibited. The inhibitory effect of arginine was less pronounced in agar media. It is recommended that arginine broth for routine mycoplasma investigations should have a reduced arginine concentration of only 2 g/