Bacteriophage Growth on Stationary Phase Achromobacter cells
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- 1 July 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Microbiology Society in Journal of General Virology
- Vol. 32 (1) , 45-50
- https://doi.org/10.1099/0022-1317-32-1-45
Abstract
A new phage-host system is described in which phage α 3a grows on stationary phase Achromobacter mutant strains. Characteristic clear plaques are formed, at an e.o.p. 10-1 to 10-2, on already confluent bacterial lawns of the mutant strains. Phage growth is sensitive to aeration and growth only occurs under micro-aerophilic conditions. Lysates prepared on the mutant strains cannot transduce in contrast to transducing lysates prepared from wild type Achromobacter strains.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: