Wilkinson B J, Holmes K M
Infect Immun. 1979 Feb;23(2):549-52. doi: 10.1128/iai.23.2.549-552.1979.
Encapsulated Staphylococcus aureus strains M and Smith diffuse bound phage 84 and 52A much less efficiently than their unencapsulated counterparts, M variant and Smith compact. It is proposed that the capsule acts as a barrier excluding phage from interaction with their receptor (cell wall peptidoglycan and teichoic acid). Inefficient phage adsorption by encapsulated staphylococci may explain, in part, the poor phage typing of such strains.
与无荚膜的对应菌株M变异株和史密斯致密株相比，被膜金黄色葡萄球菌菌株M和史密斯菌株对噬菌体84和52A的扩散结合效率要低得多。有人提出，荚膜起到了屏障的作用，使噬菌体无法与它们的受体（细胞壁肽聚糖和磷壁酸）相互作用。被膜葡萄球菌对噬菌体吸附效率低下可能部分解释了此类菌株噬菌体分型不佳的原因。
