THE EFFECT OF THE HOST ON THE PROPERTIES AND SENSITIVITY OF A BACTERIAL VIRUS

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
A host-virus system composed of one bacterial virus (M-5), and 3 strains of Bacillus megaterium (H-1,H-2,H-3) was examined to determine the effect of the host on certain properties of M-5. Differences in the host response were found in plating efficiency, absorption and antibody neutralization of the virus. The hosts reacted similarly with respect to the virus'' latent period, X-ray and deuteron inactivation. These properties are concerned with the internal characteristics of the virus. It is postulated that the host does not significantly affect the internal virus entity since the same or similar virus units appear to be responsible for virus multiplication in different hosts.