Twort-d'Herelle phenomenon
- Twort-d'Herelle phenomenon
- the phenomenon of transmissible bacterial lysis (bacteriophagia). When to a broth culture of typhoid or dysentery bacilli there is added a drop of filtered broth emulsion of the stool from a convalescent typhoid or dysentery patient, complete lysis of the bacterial culture will occur in a few hours. If a drop of this lysed culture is added to another culture of the bacilli, lysis will take place exactly as in the first. A drop of this culture will then dissolve a third culture, and so on through hundreds of transfers. d'Herelle attributed this phenomenon to the action of an ultramicroscopic parasite of bacteria, which he named the bacteriophage. See bacterial virus, under virus.
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d'Herelle phenomenon — d He·relle phenomenon (də relґ) [Fйlix Hubert d Herelle, Canadian bacteriologist in France, 1873–1949] Twort d Herelle phenomenon; see under phenomenon … Medical dictionary
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