Bacteriophage and Phagocytosis

[摘要] Of the many phenomena which appear to be initiated or, at least, intensified through the action of bacteriophage that of bacterial dissolution has received by far the greatest amount of attention. This is but natural since the process of bacterial dissolution through this agent is by far the most spectacular manifestation of its activity. It does not necessarily follow, from either the biological point of view or from the standpoint of immunology, that this manifestation of bacteriophage is the most significant.The rôle of the bacteriophage in inciting or in accelerating microbic dissociation may, perhaps, be a matter of far greater biological import than is actual bacterial dissolution, and from the standpoint of immunology it may very well be that, under certain circumstances at least, the influence of bacteriophage upon phagocytosis may be far more significant than is the direct action of bacteriophage upon the bacterial cell.

[学科分类] 生物科学（综合）