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Isolation of bacteriophages from commercial sera

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Commercially available sera contain bacterial viruses. The possible origin of serum bacteriophages and the implication of this observation for tissue culture studies are discussed.

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  1. Abdel Fattah M. Attallah (Graduate student in genetics) & Mark R. Geier

    Present address: George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

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  1. Laboratory of General and Comparative Biochemistry, National Institute of Mental Health, Bldg. 36, Room 3A19, 20014, Bethesda, Maryland

    Carl R. Merril, Thomas B. Friedman, Abdel Fattah M. Attallah (Graduate student in genetics), Mark R. Geier, Kenneth Krell & Rhoda Yarkin

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Research supported by a Postdoctoral Fellowship (1 FO2 HD 50,527-1) from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

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Merril, C.R., Friedman, T.B., Attallah, A.F.M. et al. Isolation of bacteriophages from commercial sera. In Vitro 8, 91–93 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02615965

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