Bacteriophages are viruses that cannot exist and reproduce without a bacterial host cell. The end result is bacterial cell lysis, which means bacteriophages can be used as a fighting tool against bacterial infections. Literature shows the widespread use of bacteriophages in the food industry and agro-culture. The increasing bacterial resistance to antibiotics also makes it a potential solution in the field of medicine, more specifically human applications. Demand for bacteriophages is therefore increasing, and so is the need of optimal production processes. Understanding phage-bacteria interaction is key, therefore, experiments were carried out on the phage K- Staphylococcus capitis system in batch and continuous reactors. Since physiology of bacterial cells is directly linked to these parameters, latent period, adsorption constant, burst size and eclipse period were observed at different specific bacterial cell growth and dilution rates, respectively. At increasing specific growth rate and dilution rate, an increasing adsorption constant and burst size were observed in both systems. The decrease of latent period and eclipse period for the same trend in specific growth rate and dilution rate was observed in batch reactors, while for continuous reactors the data was insufficient.
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