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Cell wall-less bacterial strains, isolated by experimental treatment from normal bacteria, are designated as L-forms. Several of them are genetically stable organisms showing extreme pleotropic changes in their properties. During numerous years of cultivation, some L-form strains could be adapted to grow in media without supplements of serum or additional osmotic stabilizers (Gilpin and Patterson, 1976; Gumpert and Taubeneck, 1983; Leon and Panos, 1976; Madoff, 1986).
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Gumpert, J. (1993). Cellular Growth without a Murein Sacculus — the Nucleoid-Associated Compartmentation Concept. 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_52
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