The use of antibiotics to improve phage detection and enumeration by the double-layer agar technique

Background The Double-Layer Agar (DLA) technique is extensively used in phage research to enumerate and identify phages and to isolate mutants and new phages. Many phages form large and well-defined plaques that are easily observed so that they can be enumerated when plated by the DLA technique. How...

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Main Author: Santos, Sílvio Roberto Branco (author)
Other Authors: Carvalho, Carla M. (author), Sillankorva, Sanna (author), Nicolau, Ana (author), Ferreira, Eugénio C. (author), Azeredo, Joana (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2009
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1822/9587
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/9587