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1Environmental Engineering Program, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|December 1, 1985
Abstract:
Measurements of the passage of Pseudomonas putida ATCC 12633 and a phage-resistant mutant through Berea sandstone rock were made. When bacteriophage gh-1 was adsorbed within the rock matrix, a reduction in the passage of the susceptible but not the resistant cells through the rock was observed.
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