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. 1953 Jun 1;97(6):767–771. doi: 10.1084/jem.97.6.767

CONTROL BY FACTORS DISTINCT FROM THE S TRANSFORMING PRINCIPLE OF THE AMOUNT OF CAPSULAR POLYSACCHARIDE PRODUCED BY TYPE III PNEUMOCOCCI

Colin M MacLeod 1, Marjorie R Krauss 1
PMCID: PMC2136314  PMID: 13069634

Abstract

Pneumococci can possess the normal S transforming principle and yet produce amounts of capsular polysaccharide much less than would be expected if the quantity formed depended only on the nature of the S transforming principle.

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