Abstract
The similarity to materials corrosion is invoked to develop a model for phage-infected bacterial lysis based on the statistics of extremes. The importance of cell size, envelope thickness and lysozyme eclipse time on the final probability distribution of lysis is considered. Experiments are suggested to test the model.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 209-213 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Journal of Theoretical Biology |
Volume | 201 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 7 Dec 1999 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Statistics and Probability
- Modeling and Simulation
- General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
- General Immunology and Microbiology
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
- Applied Mathematics