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Transduction in vivo

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Transductions and lysogenic conversions were obtained in live chick embryos and in mice. Transductions were successful when lysates were inoculated with or without 30 minutes previous incubation together and also when cultures were inoculated first and lysates 5 hours later.

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  1. T. Velaudapillai

    Present address: Medical Research Institute, Colombo, Ceylon

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  1. Department of Bacteriology, Sheffield University, England

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Grateful acknowledgement is made to Professor C. P.Beattie for the help and encouragement given, to Dr.Joan Taylor for confirming the antigenic formulae of some of the organisms, to Dr. A.Bernstein, Dr. F.Kauffmann and Dr. C. C.Spicer for supplying cultures and phage.

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Velaudapillai, T. Transduction in vivo. Zeitschr. f. Hygiene. 146, 470–480 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02152213

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