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Isolation of Bacteriophages Active Against Neisseria meningitidis

¹ Department of Bacteriology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C. 20012

ABSTRACT

Five distinct bacteriophages have been isolated from strains of Neisseria meningitidis. Filtrates with titers of 10^–4 to 10^–6 were produced with a modified Swanstrom and Adams semisolid agar procedure, employing Eugonbroth with added agar and an incubation temperature of 30 C. Of 49 strains of N. meningitidis (groups B and C), 25 were lysed by one or more of the phages, but there was no lysis of other Neisseria and Mima polymorpha strains.

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