Isolation and preliminary characterization of twenty bacteriophages infecting either brevibacterium or arthrobacter strains.
Thirty-seven bacteriophages plaquing on Corynebacterium, Brevibacterium, or Arthrobacter strains were isolated from soil or vegetation samples. Restriction analysis of phage DNA indicated that 20 phages were unique; one of them produced entirely turbid plaques on Brevibacterium ketoglutamicum and was characterized as temperate. All these phages were assigned to group B of the classification of Bradley (Bacteriol. Rev. 31:230-314, 1967) and had relatively narrow host ranges.
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Laboratoire de Microbiologie, I.N.S.A., Bâtiment 406, 20 Avenue Albert Einstein, 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex, France.
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