632 



3. DEHYDROACETATE 



Table 3-2 

 Antimicrobial Activity of Dehydroacetate 



Organism 



Bacteria 

 Aerobacter aerogenes 

 Alcaligenes faecalis 

 Bacillus anthracis 

 B. cereus 

 B. megaterium 

 B. mesentericus 

 B. suhtilis 



Corynebacterium diphtheriae 

 Escherichia coli 

 Lactobacillus acidophilus 

 L. brevis 

 L. casei 

 L. fermenti 

 L. plantarum 



Mycobacterium tuberculosis 

 Pseudomonas aeruginosa 

 Salmonella pullorum 

 Salmonella typhosa 

 Staphylococcus aureus 



Vibrio cholerae 

 V. metchnikowii 



Fungi 

 Aspergillus niger 

 Botrytis allii 

 Fusarium graminearum, 

 Penicillium digitalum 



P. expansum 

 Rhizopus nigricans 

 Trichophyton interdigitale 

 T. mentagrophytes 



Yeasts 

 Candida albicans 

 Saccharomyces cerevisiae 



" References: (1) Brodersen and Kjaer (1946); (2) Fitzgerald and Jordan (1953); 

 (3) McGowan et al. (1948); (4) Stedman et al. (1954); (5) Ukita etal. (1949); (6) Wolf 

 (1950); (7) Wolf and Westveer (1950). 



