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A procedure for preparing sodium dodecyl sulfate-salt-cleared lysates of mycobacteria was developed. Standard techniques were employed to demonstrate covalently closed circular deoxyribonucleic acid in lysates of nine strains of Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare.
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