On the Isolation of Antibiotic Producing Streptomyces spp. from Soil

항생물질 생산 Streptomyces의 분리 및 동정에 관하여

Among the Streptomyces isolated from soil, two strains which have antibacterial activity aginst various pathogenic bacteria are identified as Streptomyces globosus and Streptomyces albus subsp. according to I.S.P. methods and Bergy's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology. Morphological and physiological characteristics of them on several media were observed. Antibiotics from S. albus subsp. or S. globosus was identified asw tetracycline or streptomycin-like substances respectively by the paper chromatographic behavior in eight solvent systems of V. Betina. And it was revealed that these antibiotic substances are stable to temperature and weak acid.