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Determination of the biological parameters of bacterium‐phage complexes
Author(s) -
Gáspár S.,
Rontó Gy.,
Müller G.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
zeitschrift für allgemeine mikrobiologie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.58
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1521-4028
pISSN - 0044-2208
DOI - 10.1002/jobm.19790190303
Subject(s) - lysis , bacteria , virulence , standard deviation , yield (engineering) , bacteriophage , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , biological system , chemistry , mathematics , statistics , physics , escherichia coli , thermodynamics , genetics , gene
The authors present a method of measurement and evaluation for continuous cultures of bacteria infected by virulent phages. By the comparison of the model describing the phage‐bacterium interaction and their own experimental data they determined the following biological parameter values characterizing the interaction: the adsorption rate (μ), the expectation of the latency period ( T ) and its standard deviation (σ), the time required for lysis ( d ), the infection efficiency ( n ) and the average burst size ( C ). The parameters were used or the determination of optimal cultivating conditions (maximum phage yield).