A Growing Microcolony can Survive and Support Persistent Propagation of Virulent Phages
R. S. Eriksen, S. Svenningsen, K. Sneppen, N. Mitarai
The paper shows that larger bacterial colonies can survive virulent phages by outgrowing surface infections, with a critical size threshold identified through mathematical modeling.
bioRxiv · Jun 12, 2017Microbiology