Thursday, 4 March 2010

Frequency rate between Lytic phages and Lysogenic phages

The questions are:


Are there more Lytic phages or more Lysogenic phages for example in Acinetobacter baumannii or in Mycobacterium ulcerans or in other genera ?

Are there Lytic Phages or are there not Lytic Phages for all genera?

What is the frequency rate between Lytic phages (%?) and Lysogenic phages (%?) capable to growth in each of these Bacteria ?


Lytic phages> Lysogenic phages ?
or
Lysogenic phages >Lytic phages ?
or
no Lytic phages but only Lysogenic phages ?


From the book " BACTERIOPHAGES" the probable answer: "Lysogenic bacteria are very common in nature and probably constitute the principal reservoir of bacteriophages."


The success of Phage therapy depends how we are able to give these answers.