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Mutant Drug Resistant Factors of High Transmissibility

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The isolation of mutants giving increased donor ability confirms the view that the frequency of conjugation leading to drug-resistance transfer is controlled by a cytoplasmic repressor determined by regulatory genes.

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  1. Medical Research Council Microbial Genetics Research Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, London, W.12

    ELINOR MEYNELL

  2. Department of Bacteriology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London, W.12

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MEYNELL, E., DATTA, N. Mutant Drug Resistant Factors of High Transmissibility. Nature 214, 885–887 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/214885a0

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