“…1 Resistant to a wide spectrum of antimicrobial therapeutics: 30 aminoglycosides (in pharmacological concentrations), chloramphenicol, lincosamides, cephalosporins, macrolides, fluoroquinolones, glycopeptides (in pharmacological concentrations), polymyxins, antituberculous agents, aminocyclitol, spectinomycin. Sensitive to tetracyclines, 30 ampicillin, 30 trimethoprim, 30 trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, 30 nitrofurantoin, 30 5-fluorouracil, 30 cytosine arabinoside, 30 antimycin A, 22 sodium azide, 22 potassium cyanide, 22 bisphosphonates (etidronate, clodronate), 30 6-aminocaproic acid; 30 in-vitro growth can be inhibited by EDTA, EGTA, and citrate 22 Culture properties Doubling time is 3 days; in media without serum, 6 days. 1,16 Passage can be performed in DMEM or RPMI-1640 independently of the presence of serum.…”