

@inbook {4200,
	title = {{Bacteriophages}},
	booktitle = {Bacteriophages},
	year = {1959},
	pages = {592},
	publisher = {Interscience Publishers, Inc.},
	organization = {Interscience Publishers, Inc.},
	address = {New York, NY },
	abstract = {<p>This book is the first to give a comprehensive account of every aspect of the biology of bacteriophages which has so far been studied as well as a rather briefer account of the use of these organisms in typing their bacterial hosts. It is based on a manuscript by Mark Adams, brought up to date by an editional panel after his death. A few chapters, contributed by other authors, were added to complete Adams\&$\#$39;s original plan. The author has presented each aspect of the biology of phages in relation to the experimental methods used in its study and also described the results which have followed from each kind of experimental approach. Thus, there are chapters on the enumeration, size and morphology of phage particles; on the effects of physical and chemical agents on them; on their chemical composition, antigenic properties, nutrtional requirements and host specificity; and on the phage\&$\#$39;s life cycle. Other chapters describe cytological observations on the infected host cell, experiments using radio-isotopes to study the fate of infecting phage particles, the use of chemical inhibitors of phage growth (a chapter contributed by J. S. Gots), and mixed infection experiments in which different phages simultaneously infect the same host. This treatment inevitably leads to some repetition and overlapping between chapters and, where this occurs, there are careful cross-references. However, it succeeds admirably in fulfilling the author\&$\#$39;s evident aim of assessing each experimental result critically in the light of the methods used and of defining what each method is capable of achieving. Further chapters are concerned with mutation and phenotypic variation and phage genetics. Two chapters contributed by F. Jacob and E.-L. Wollman deal with lysogeny and bacteriocins. These last, although they are not phages, have enough properties in common with phages to justify their inclusion in this book. E. S. Anderson\&$\#$39;s chapter on the use of phages in epidemiological studies gives a brief survey of the phage-typing systems in current use and discusses the principles involved in each of them. A final chapter discusses the problems of phage taxonomy. Throughout the book each technical term is defined when it is first used and, in addition, there is a glossary, of particular help to those unfamiliar with phage jargon. There is an appendix on experimental methods for studying phages but this does not deal with methods of phage typing. This book may confidently be recommended both to the student and to the specialist since, although no previous knowledge of the subject is assumed, the wealth of information presented is nowhere else available in one volume. It is to be hoped that further editions will follow so that those interested may be kept up to date in a rapidly developing subject.</p>
},
	author = {Adams, M. H.}
}
