1920 BORDET, Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent (1870 – 1961); CIUCÃ, Mihai (1883 – 1969)

Exsudats leucocytaires et autolyse microbienne transmissible.

Lysogeny

GMN 2572.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3693

1951 LWOFF, André Michel (1902 – 1994)

Conditions de l'efficacité inductice du rayonnement ultra-violet chez une bactérie lysogène.

Lwoff successfully explained how the process of lysogeny works. The bacteriophage’s genes are incorporated into the bacteria’s genetic material, but remain latent until a trigger factor causes a new phage to be formed…

GMN 13937 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16234

1952 LWOFF, André Michel (1902 – 1994)

Rôle des cations bivalents dans l'induction du développement du prophage par les agents reducteurs.

Lwoff gave the name "prophage" to the form in which the genome of the bacteriophage is perpetuated in lysogenic bacteria. The bacteriophages produced by these bacteria, known as temperate bacteriophages, can therefore…

GMN 13938 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16235