Discovery
Bacteriophage T7 was identified in 1945 as a member of the seven Type (“T”) phages that grow lytically on Escherichia coli B, although it is probably identical to phage δ, used earlier by Delbrück. A close relative of T7 was likely studied by d’Herelle in the 1920s.
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