0 short for bacteriophage; a virus that grows and divides inside a bacterium, destroying it : --
Molecular typing methods are widely used to supplement more established typing methods such as phage and serotyping and to support epidemiological investigations of listeriosis.
Effects of condensing agent and nuclease on the extent of ejection from phage lambda.
Increasing and decreasing protein stability - effects of refertant substitutions on the thermal-denaturation of phage lambda-repressor.
In conclusion, internal genome pressure is one of the key determining factors for phage infectivity and capsid stability.
Outbreak-associated strains showed a coincident phage type, antibiotype and pulse-field gel electrophoresis pattern.
Phage therapy revisited : the population biology of a bacterial infection and its treatment with bacteriophage and antibiotics.
Overlapping clones (four phages) spanning 22 kb were recovered.
The plates were then inoculated with respective phages using a multipoint inoculator.