๐Ÿ”ฌ Residual Fraction

A subpopulation within a phage stock that displays slower class="bap-term">Adsorption constant">adsorption rates than the majority of the stock.

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

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About this entry: Residual Fraction 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

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Residual Fraction: A subpopulation within a phage stock that displays slower class="bap-term">Adsorption constant">adsorption rates than the majority of the stock.

Discussion

<p>The concept of a residual fraction is somewhat generic and here is being defined according the usage of Delbrück (1942), p. 17, who noted that "a given suspension of virus is inhomogeneous with respect to its affinity to the bacteria."

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References

  • Delbrรผck (1942).

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

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