Accession Number:

AD0648201

Title:

OBSERVATIONS ON THE POSSIBILITY OF OBTAINING STREPTOMYCIN-FAST FORMS OF P. PESTIS WITH THE AID OF DNA PREPARATIONS

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

ARMY BIOLOGICAL LABS FREDERICK MD

Personal Author(s):

• Klassovskii, L. N.
• Terenteva, L. I.

Report Date:

1965-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

3.0

Abstract:

The possibility of transfering streptomycin resistance to Pasteurella pestis through the medium of the DNA of resistant strains was investigated. Incubation of the recipiant strains with DNA under a variety of conditions failed to yield any indication that such a transfurance takes place.

Descriptors:

• *YERSINIA PESTIS
• USSR
• TRANSLATIONS
• GENETICS
• RADIATION EFFECTS
• RESISTANCE(BIOLOGY)
• GROWTH(PHYSIOLOGY)
• CULTURE MEDIA

Subject Categories:

• Microbiology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE