In several models of phage infection there is the term 'lysis rate' (η). What is the procedure for the experimental methods for measuring it? I could find nothing on PubMed.
Also, is there a list of values for different phages ready-made?
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You need to be more specific. Does this concern temperate phages and it describes the rate of prophage induction? Or is it the fraction of infections that results in the lysis of the host cell?
There is definitely not a ready-made set of values, I am afraid. These parameters typically depend a lot on temperature, medium, host strain, phage strain, host physiology, you name it.
Are you talking about the phage "life cycle" or time until lysis after infection? If so, this is measured by the classic one step growth curve experiment. But I'm not sure whether this is what you mean or not.
Digging more into the literature, I understood that the lysis rate is simply the reciprocal of the latency time. So yes, the one-step growth curve experiment should do it. Thank you.
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