Small colony variants, or G. forms, have been reported for a number of bacterial species (see Koser and Dienst (1934), Swingle (1935), and Haddow (1938), for reviews of the literature) but because of the infrequency of their occurrence as compared with many other bacterial variants they have not received an equivalent amount of attention. The characteristics of the small colony variants
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