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Phage typing

phage typing

(Science: microbiology) bacteria may be typed by their susceptibility to a range of bacteriophages though confusion may arise if the bacteria carry plasmids encoding restriction endonucleases.


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Bacteriophages and Acne?

... the problems are: -stability is not the greatest quality of bacteriophage cultures. In things like phage typing (strain discrimination of bacteria by sensitivity to a panel of phages), the hard part ...

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by canalon
Mon May 26, 2008 1:45 pm
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: Bacteriophages and Acne?
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Bacteriophage Question

Bacteriophages are safe to human since they do not enter eukaryotic cell, they can even be picky about which bacteria they infect... In fact phage typing is a method used to differntiate between strains of a same bacterial species (or subspecies ...

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by canalon
Wed Sep 07, 2005 1:16 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Bacteriophage Question
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