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Segregation during Transfer of Infectious Drug Resistance in Enterobacteriaceae

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MANY reports of infectious drug resistance suggest that all the resistance determinants of a multiple resistant donor strain are invariably transferred to the sensitive recipient strain.

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  1. Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, W.C.1

    JOHN R. WALTON & FORREST FULTON

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WALTON, J., FULTON, F. Segregation during Transfer of Infectious Drug Resistance in Enterobacteriaceae. Nature 215, 179–180 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215179a0

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