Summary A strain of Staph. aureus isolated from an infected wound showed firmly linked resistance to penicillin and kanamycin. Variants sensitive to both these antibiotics were produced spontaneously and at a high frequency during storage for a few days at ambient temperature. Both sensitive and resistant variants produced a highly coloured diffusible pigment.
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