A Simple Exercise for Teaching Bacteriophage Concepts in the Undergraduate Laboratory Using Commercially Available Disinfectant
Virus and bacteriophage are key components in any microbiology teaching. We have used a commercially available disinfectant (Trigene™) to demonstrate plaques formation from bacteriophages on confluent bacterial lawns. We have designed a laboratory exercise on phage typing using these plaques in a s...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2018-09-01
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Series: | Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education |
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Online Access: | http://jmbesubmissions.asm.org/index.php/jmbe/article/view/1527 |