[Study of the sensitivity of the L-forms of group A Streptococcus to antibiotics in artificial nutrient media and in human cell cultures].

Sensitivity of L-forms of group A streptococci to 5 antibiotics such as erythromycin, lincomycin, tetracycline, gentamicin and chloramphenicol was studied in an artificial nutrient medium and cell cultures i.e. human fibroblast diploid cells and transplantable human heart cells (Girardi).

[Interaction of streptococcal L-forms and tissue culture cells].

The interaction between 2 strains of group A streptococci in L-forms and the cells of the continuous cell lines HEp, HeLa, L, GPK and PEK, as well as the cells of primary human and chick embryo cell cultures was studied under conditions of infection with different doses. In most of the cell cultures used in this study L-form of streptococci showed no pronounced cytopathic effect. They could be isolated, when using cell cultures as inoculum, from the cultivated cells of continuous cell lines during the whole period of the cultivation of the infected monolayer (6--7 days), primary human embryo cell culture up to days 8--11 and from chick embryo cell culture up to days 1--3.