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HEREDITARY immunity manifests itself in Escherichia coli treated with a cell free medium obtained from a stationary phase culture inoculated with a virulent phage. Immune bacteria have certain features which cannot be explained by selective or mutational processes. They become resistant to other related and unrelated virulent phages of the T-series as well as to the phage present in the cell free medium (infecting phage).
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BARZILAI, R. New Type of Immunity to Virulent T-phages in Escherichia coli. Nature 212, 539 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/212539a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/212539a0
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