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This study describes the isolation of temperate B. anthracis phages, from 4 out of 20 B. anthracis strains screened, by use of the inducing agents mitomycin C and UV light. Phage φ20 isolated from B. anthracis Sterne 34F2 (pXO1+ pXO2−) was shown to have double-stranded DNA of size 48756 bp and a restriction site map showing nine sites for enzymes BamHI, BglII, and SstI is included. The φ20 genome was found to exist as a plasmidial prophage and the phage itself to have a polyhedral head of diameter 65 nm and tail 217 nm long and 15 nm wide.
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Inal, J., Karunakaran, K. φ20, A Temperate Bacteriophage Isolated from Bacillus anthracis Exists as a Plasmidial Prophage. Curr Microbiol 32, 171–175 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002849900030
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