In 1929, Burnet and his graduate assistant Margot McKie wrote a paper suggesting that bacteriophages could exist as a stable non-infectious form that multiplies with the bacterial host.
1929年，伯内特和他的副手玛戈特·麦基撰写了一篇论文，认为噬菌体可以以一种稳定的无感染性的形式存在，随细菌宿主的增殖而增殖。