SUBJECT INDEX 



571 



Brucella species, 121 

 Burst, definition, 439 

 Burst size, definition and determina- 

 tion, 14, 15, 170, 171,473 

 effect on DNA transfer from parent 



to progeny phage, 220, 221 

 of mixedly infected bacteria, 500 

 variation, 171, 489, 490 



Cadmium cyanide, effect on coliphage 

 T2, 164, 268, 270 

 as taxonomic criterion, 428 

 Calcium ion, effect on adsorption of 

 bacteriophages, 145, 234-36, 

 269, 301, 306,428 

 effect on heat inactivation of coli- 



phages, 58 

 effect on stability of bacteriophages, 



454 

 and injection by coliphage T5, 

 164, 165, 199, 234, 270, 282, 

 306 

 Capacity, definition, 439 

 Carbohydrate, in coliphages, 88, 89 

 Carbon, labeled, in study of bacterio- 

 phage composition, 90 

 in study of fate of infecting bacte- 

 riophages, 208, 211, 218, 219, 

 226 

 in study of metabolism of E. coli 



15T-, 241 

 in study of protein synthesis in 

 bacteriophages, 250 

 Carboxyl groups, in adsorption of coli- 

 phage T2, 151 

 Carrier strains, see Pseudolysogenesis 

 Catalase, in coliphage WLL, 238 

 Centrifugation, in determination of 

 bacteriophage purity, 86 

 in determination of bacteriophage 

 size, 40, 42, 43 



Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide, 



effect on coliphage T6, 51 

 Chelating agents, effect on coliphage 



T5, 52, 59 

 Chilling, effect on bacteriophage syn- 

 thesis, 19 

 Chloramphenicol, effect on infected 

 bacteria, 182, 243, 248, 275, 

 283, 287 

 in premature lysis of bacterio- 

 phages, 174 

 Chloroform, effect on adsorption of 

 bacteriophage, 152 

 in premature lysis of bacterio- 

 phages, 174, 175,468,521,522 

 Cholera, bacteriophage therapy of, 4 

 Chromatography, in bacterial anti- 

 gens study, 158 

 in bacteriophage composition study, 



90 

 in coliphage T2 assay, 33 

 Chromobacterium species, 121 

 Chrysomycin, effect on bacteriophage 



reproduction, 285 

 Chymotrypsin, effect on bacterio- 

 phages, 270 

 Cistron, definition, 354 

 Citrate, effect on bacteriophages, 235, 

 269 

 as taxonomic criterion, 423, 428 

 effect on cohphage T5, 52, 164, 270, 

 306 

 Clone, definition, 439 

 Clostridium species, 121 

 Colicin(s), 2 



comparison with bacteriophages, 



381-83, 386, 387, 392, 393 

 conditions affecting production, 388 

 definition, 381,382 

 detection and determination, 382, 



383, 387 

 effect on host cell, 202, 386, 387, 

 389, 392 



