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Intrastrain Transduction in Proteus mirabilis

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A NUMBER of bacteriophage-mediated transduction systems have been described1. Intrastrain transduction was originally described for Salmonella typhimurium by Zinder and Lederberg2 and recently Loutit has described a similar situation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa 3.

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    J. N. COETZEE & T. G. SACKS

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COETZEE, J., SACKS, T. Intrastrain Transduction in Proteus mirabilis . Nature 185, 869–870 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/185869a0

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