- The stability of bacterial viruses in solutions of salts. Adams, M.H. (1949). J. Gen. Physiol. 32:579-594. [TOP OF PAGE]
- The reactions of bacterial viruses with their host cells. Anderson, T.F. (1949). Botan. Rev. 15???:464-505??? ??? [TOP OF PAGE]
- Growth requirements of bacterial viruses. Cohen, S.S. (1949). Bacteriol. Rev. 13:1-24. [conclusion] In the foregoing, data have been presented on phage multiplication as affected by numerous environmental factors. It has been shown that these environmental factors vary in their complexity, from the ammonium salts which can supply the nitrogen for T2 growth in E. coli, to the organized enzymes of E. coli which effect synthesis essential to the production of T2. Methods have been deivsed and described to ascertain more precisely the role of these growth requirements at one or several stages of growth. It has been shown, for instance, that tryptophan is a virus constituent and must be provided in the environment to permit the synthesis of virus constituents. This has been demonstrated in tryptophan-requiring bacteria, or by one of the four methods, i.e., the supplement, depletion, antimetabolite or direct utilization techniques in cells capable of synthesizing tryptophan. The interpretation of the results has depended on a great deal of knowledge concerning the growth of a particular bacterial virus and general biochemical information concerning the possible metabolic rôle [SIC?] of chemical compounds. We are at a point where a detailed determination of growth requirements and analysis of their mode of action can be made; with a very few exceptions, such a study has not yet been made. The pertinence of these data and the phage methods to problems of growth and control of other viruses is so clear as to make one wonder if attempts at their application to these other systems should not be more widespread. [TOP OF PAGE]
- The bacteriophage. d'Herelle, F. (1949). Science News 14:44-59. [TOP OF PAGE]
- On the reliability of the Poisson distribution as a distribution of the number of phage particles infecting individual bacteria in a population. Dulbecco, R. (1949). Genetics 34:122-125. [no abstract]. [TOP OF PAGE]
- Bacteriophage. Fong, J. (1949). Ann. Rev. Microbiol. 3:423-444. This review covers the period from January, 1941 to February, 1949. [TOP OF PAGE]
- Le bactériophage. Nicolle, P. (1949). Biol. Med. 38:233-??? [TOP OF PAGE]
- Enumeration of virus particles by electron micrography. Sharp, G.D. (1949). Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med. 70:54-59. [TOP OF PAGE]
- The discovery of the bacteriophage. Twort, F.W. (1949). Science News 14:33-34. [TOP OF PAGE]
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