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Morton Hamburger, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1968;122(2):175-178.

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The past two decades have witnessed many instructive revelations of the anatomy and biochemistry of the bacterial cell.^1,2 These discoveries have stimulated great interest in the possible role, in clinical or experimental infection, of bacteria which differ from conventional bacterial forms.^3-5 Are such organisms laboratory freaks or do they play a role in disease?

The terminology of bacteria wholly or partly deficient in their cell walls has become increasingly confused and is still subject to nuances of interpretation. The term L-form was coined in 1935 by Emmy Klieneberger, MD,⁶ to designate what she called "protoplasmic forms" derived from a strain of Streptobacillus moniliformis with which she was working at the Lister Institute in London. Not knowing exactly what she was dealing with, but needing a name, she called these aberrant organisms "L-forms," after the Lister Institute. Subsequent studies by microbiologists have resulted in the usual spate of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Cincinnati

From the Department of Internal Medicine, Cincinnati General Hospital, Cincinnati.

Footnotes
Received for publication April 17, 1968; accepted May 21.

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