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Frederick William Twort FRS [1] (22 October 1877 – 20 March 1950) was an English bacteriologist and was the original discoverer in 1915 of bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria). [4] He studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital , London , was superintendent of the Brown Institute for Animals (a pathology research centre), and was a ...
In 1915, British bacteriologist Frederick Twort, superintendent of the Brown Institution of London, discovered a small agent that infected and killed bacteria. He believed the agent must be one of the following: a stage in the life cycle of the bacteria; an enzyme produced by the bacteria themselves, or; a virus that grew on and destroyed the ...
The discovery of bacteriophages was reported by British bacteriologist Frederick Twort in 1915 [21] and by French microbiologist Felix d'Hérelle in 1917. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] D'Hérelle said that the phages always appeared in the stools of Shigella dysentery patients shortly before they began to recover. [ 24 ]
In 1915, British bacteriologist Frederick W. Twort discovered a small agent that infects and kills bacteria, but did not pursue the issue further. Independently, the discovery of "an invisible, antagonistic microbe of the dysentery bacillus" by d'Hérelle was announced on 3 September 1917.
They were discovered in the early 20th century, by the English bacteriologist Frederick Twort (1877–1950). [20] But before this time, in 1896, the bacteriologist Ernest Hanbury Hankin (1865–1939) reported that something in the waters of the River Ganges could kill Vibrio cholerae – the cause of cholera .
[French; The Lysogenic Bacteria and the Concept of the Provirus] OCLC 5780525 International Union of Biological Sciences. 1953. Le Bactériophage: Premier Colloque International.
In the early 20th century, English bacteriologist Frederick Twort discovered viruses that infect bacteria, [4] and French-Canadian microbiologist Félix d'Herelle described viruses that, when added to bacteria growing on agar, would lead to the formation of whole areas of dead bacteria. Counting these dead areas allowed him to calculate the ...
In the early 20th century, the English bacteriologist Frederick Twort discovered a group of viruses that infect bacteria, now called bacteriophages [10] (or commonly 'phages'), and the French-Canadian microbiologist Félix d'Herelle described viruses that, when added to bacteria on an agar plate, would produce areas of dead bacteria. He ...