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Growth Characteristics of V Factor-Independent Transformants of Haemophilus influenzae

Emergent Pathogen Research Unit of the South African Medical Research Council, School of Pathology of the University of the Witwatersrand and the South African Institute for Medical Research, 7 York Road, Parktown, Johannesburg 2193, South Africa

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ABSTRACT

Haemophilus influenzae is a V factor-dependent species. A plasmid conferring V factor independence in Haemophilus parainfluenzae and Haemophilus ducreyi was transferred to plasmid-free H. influenzae Rd by DNA transformation. The growth characteristics of the transformants in a complex and a chemically defined medium were compared, and the ability of several exogenous pyridine nucleotides and precursors to support growth was examined. Although the transformants appeared to be V factor independent in a complex medium, in a chemically defined medium they exhibited both V factor-dependent and nicotinamide-dependent growth. Because of the inability of the plasmid-free H. influenzae Rd to utilize nicotinamide for growth, it was concluded that the genes conferring this function were plasmid linked. Our results indicate that the V factor requirement, as it is presently defined, is not suitable to serve as a definitive taxonomic criterion for species determination in the family Pasteurellaceae.

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