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J. Bacteriol. doi:10.1128/JB.00235-07
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Intracellular parasitism of chlamydiae: the specific infectivity of chlamydiaphage Chp2, in Chlamydophila abortus

Molecular Microbiology Group, University Medical School, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK and Department of Veterinary Sciences and Microbiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: bfane{at}u.arizona.edu.

	Abstract

The obligate intracellular nature of chlamydiae presents challenges to the characterization of its phages, which are potential tools for a genetic transfer system. An assay for phage infectivity is described and the infectious properties of phage Chp2 were determined.