Overcoming the phage replication threshold: A mathematical model with implications for phage therapy

Journal of Virology

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 5557-5564

  Kasman, Laura M ^a   Kasman, Alex ^a   Westwater, Caroline ^a   Dolan, Joseph ^a   Schmidt, Michael G ^a   Norris, James S ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CELL DENSITY; CELL POPULATION; GENE THERAPY; HOST CELL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS REPLICATION;

BACTERIOPHAGE M13; BACTERIOPHAGE P1; CELL COUNT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0036097075     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.76.11.5557-5564.2002     Document Type: Article

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