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SUMMARY: A Gram-negative motile bacterium isolated from soil can grow with naphthalene as sole carbon source and produces from it d-trans-1:2-dihydro-1:2-dihydroxynaphthalene and salicylic acid.
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Walker et al. (1953) studied this question.
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