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1Department of Microbiology, Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, Missouri
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This work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the American Cancer Society. The review is based on the Eli Lilly Award lecture given at the 56th General Meeting of the Society of American Bacteriologists at Houston, Texas, on May 3, 1956.