Mycobacteriophages isolated from Persons with Tuberculous and Non-tuberculous Conditions
Abstract
IN a recent communication1 certain effects of mycobacteriophages on acid-fast bacilli were described. They consisted of the lysis of phage-susceptible bacteria, and of biological changes in the phage-resistant elements of the bacterial population. The phage-resistant bacteria were lysogenic. They showed changes in morphology, in the pigmentation of their colonies, in their susceptibility to mycobacteriostatic drugs, in their antigenic composition and in their pathogenicity for laboratory animals.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- September 1961
- DOI:
- 10.1038/1911416b0
- Bibcode:
- 1961Natur.191.1416M