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Fighting foam with phages?
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Fighting foam with phages?

J A Thomas, J A Soddell and D Ipek Kurtboke
Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research, Vol.46(1-2), pp.511-518
2002
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2002.0527
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Abstract

Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences Engineering phages host range
Seventeen (17) phages infective for the mycolata were isolated from six samples of activated sludge using 21 prospective hosts from the genera Dietzia, Gordonia, Nocardia, Rhodococcus, Tsukamurella and Mycobacterium. Their morphology indicated that they were all members of the viral family Siphoviridae, but they varied in the size of the icosahedral head and length of non-contractile tail, suggesting they were different. This was confirmed by host-range studies with 47 strains of mycolata, which showed that each phage had a unique host-range, and this was polyvalent in the majority (15/17) of cases, with 12 phages infective for hosts representing two or three of the genera Gordonia, Nocardia and Rhodococcus. The potential for use of these phages in the control of foaming and other applications is discussed.

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