Isolation and properties of a bacteriophage lytic for a wide range of pseudomonads
- 1 May 1971
- journal article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Microbiology
- Vol. 17 (5) , 677-682
- https://doi.org/10.1139/m71-109
Abstract
The lytic bacteriophage ø-S1 was isolated from sewage using a strain of Pseudomonas fluorescens as host. It had a hexagonal head 60 nm in diameter and a short tail 30 nm long. ø-S1 had a broad host range, lysing strains from 10 biotypes of Pseudomonads. Although the latent period was fairly constant for the bacterial strains tested, the burst size varied considerably. The rate of adsorption of the phage to different strains also varied considerably.Keywords
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