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WHILE typing staphylococci by the bacteriophage method of Wilson and Atkinson1, I encountered three batches of nutrient agar that were strongly inhibitory to phage action ; several of the phage filtrates had to be used in a concentration one hundred times greater than normal.
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SMITH, H. Calcium-Deficient Media : Their Effect on Phage Action. Nature 161, 397 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161397a0
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