Isolation of mutants of Mycoplasma pneumoniae defective in hemadsorption.

AUTOR(ES)

Hansen, E J

RESUMO

Mutants of Mycoplasma pneumoniae incapable of hemadsorption were isolated by means of chemical mutagenesis. These hemadsorption-negative mutants did not attach to hamster tracheal rings in vitro at as high a frequency as that exhibited by the wild-type parent strain.

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