🔬 Adsorption Rate

Velocity of phage attachment/initiation of infection of bacteria.

by Stephen T. Abedon Ph.D. (abedon.1@osu.edu)

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About this entry: Adsorption Rate is one of a growing set of phage biology and phage therapy terms defined here. For more phage terms, see Abedon, S.T. (2025). Phage Therapy Annotated Glossary. Preprints.org. 10.20944/preprints202508.0347.v1

phage.org/terms/adsorption_rate.html · Abedon’s Books · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20173633

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Adsorption Rate: Velocity of phage attachment/initiation of infection of bacteria.

Discussion

<p>Phage multiplicities of infection, particularly as equivalent to multiplicity of adsorption or multiplicity of infection, actual are a function of virion adsorption rates as well as phage titers and this is so particularly given lower bacterial densities. That is, the more phages that are present within an environment, the longer period over which incubation is allowed, and the greater the rates of adsorption of individual phage particles to bacteria then the overall greater ratio of adsorbed phages to phage-susceptible bacteria found within an environment.

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Abedon, S.T. (2026). Phage Terms. https://terms.phage.org · 10.5281/zenodo.20173633

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