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Host specificities of RNA phages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

Sheena Dennison  and
R. W. Hedges
Sheena Dennison
Affiliation:
Bacteriology Department, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Du Cane Road, London, W. 12
R. W. Hedges
Affiliation:
Bacteriology Department, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Du Cane Road, London, W. 12
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Host ranges of members of four groups of male-specific RNA coliphages were determined by plating on hosts carrying various derepressed plasmids. An RNA phage originally isolated on Pseudomonas aeruginosa failed to form plaques on any of the strains of Escherichia coli.

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Research Article
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Journal of Hygiene , Volume 70 , Issue 1 , March 1972 , pp. 55 - 61
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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