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A new bacteriophage, designated F4, was isolated from the ruminal fluid of a calf. The host range of F4 phage was limited to five strains ofStreptococcus bovis out of ten tested on which clear plaques 0.6–1.2 mm in diameter were found. Bacteriophage F4 had an elongated head 75 nm long and 33 nm wide with a noncontractile flexible tail 100 nm in length on average. This phage is defective in the generation of plaques at low multiplicities of infection. Its genome consists of double-stranded linear DNA of 60.38 kb lacking cohesive ends. The F4 DNA was analyzed with 13 restriction enzymes. The restriction enzymes that did not cleave it wereBamHI,EcoRI,PvuI, andSmaI. The circular restriction map was constructed with four restriction endonucleases (XbaI,EcoI,SalI, andBglI).
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Štyriak, I., Španová, A., Montagová, H. et al. Isolation and characterization of a new ruminal bacteriophage lytic toStreptococcus bovis . Current Microbiology 28, 355–358 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01570201
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