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Summary.

Cultures of carrying Coll plasmids received in conjugation from strains of and were examined for abortive infection (Abi) of phage BF23 and for enhanced resistance to the lethal action of UV-irradiation (Uvr). The Abi character of stored cultures of was also compared with the reaction of the same stock culture tested 5 years before. Seven of the eight potential types differentiated by three characters were represented among 160 Coll plasmids: Colla Abi Uvr (3 plasmids), Colla Abi Uvr (1), Colla Abi Uvr (2), Collb Abi Uvr (85), Collb Abi Uvr (5), Collb Abi Uvr (4), Collb Abi Uvr (60). Recognition that different plasmid types could be carried by strains of a clone proved useful in the interpretation of the epidemic spread of strains of of phage type/biotype 141/9f in Scotland and in tracing the ancestry of a recently emerged rhamnose non-fermenting mutant strain of .

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