title: Morphology of phages of a general Salmonella typing set.
abstract: The typing set includes 27 tailed phages belonging to three families, the Myoviridae (contractile tails, 4 phages), Siphoviridae (long, non-contractile tails, 21 phages) and Podoviridae (short tails, 2 phages). Heads are isometric or elongated. The phages fall into 10 morphological groups, seven of which correspond to known enterobacterial phage species (Jersey, N4, T5, T7, ZG/3a, chi, 16-19) and one to a Rhizobium phage species (CM1). T5-type and T7-type phages are for the first time reported in salmonellae. Two phages produce large amounts of abnormal mottled heads.
authors: Félix d'Hérelle Reference Center for Bacterial Viruses, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Quebec, Canada.
authors: H W
authors: HW
authors: Ackermann
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Gershman
mesh_terms: D001434:Bacteriophage Typing; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D012475:Salmonella / Q000145:classification; D012483:Salmonella Phages / Q000145:classification / Q000648:ultrastructure*