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Streptomyces mediterranei1, which produces the new antibiotic rifamycin2,3, has been found to be attacked by a series of actinophages. These phages, when tested against about 150 Streptomyces strains belonging to more than 100 different species and against 40 Nocardia strains, were found to be inactive against all of them (Silvestri, L., personal communication).
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THIEMANN, J., HENGELLER, C. & VIRGILIO, A. Rifamycin XXV : a Group of Actinophages Active on Streptomyces mediterranei. Nature 193, 1104–1105 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1931104a0
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