[On the utilization different organic and anorganic compounds by some strains of Bac. cereus var. mycoides (Flügge) (author's transl)].

In order to investigate the decomposition of 46 organic and anorganic compounds by Bac. mycoides, the behaviour of four strains was tested by means of plate counting technique (after Koch) and the Warburg method. Mostly intensive substances containing protein were decomposed by all strains. Furthermore amino acid, sugar, alcohols, and ammonium salts are used by the bacteria, but there were large differences between strains tested. Urea and nitrates have not been decomposed.