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The isolation and some characteristics of bacteriophages from Staphylococci present in cases of secondary pneumonia following influenza

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No epidemic strain assumed by some investigators to be present during influenzal epidemics could be demonstrated by means of phage typing; it was observed furthermore, that phages isolated from different staphylococcal strains show a variation in size as measured by filtration, which enables them to be divided into groups.

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Van Tongeren, H.A.E. The isolation and some characteristics of bacteriophages from Staphylococci present in cases of secondary pneumonia following influenza. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 20, 81–86 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02543709

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