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A highly potent penicillin inactivator has been extracted from 7 strains of Staph. aureus (coagulase positive), all of which were naturally penicillin resistant. No such inhibitor was present in extracts of 7 penicillin sensitive strains of Staph. aureus.
William Kirby (Fri,) studied this question.