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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Main Authors: Latifa B. Khan, Hannah M. Read
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018-09-01
Series:Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education
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Online Access:http://jmbesubmissions.asm.org/index.php/jmbe/article/view/1527