The adventure of bacteriophage adsorption to the bacteria and the brownian motion
How do phages adsorb to bacteria? Did you know that phage adsorption to bacterial cells involves...
Review: Can phages have a third life cycle?
Have you ever heard of bacteriophages (phages)? If yes, then what about Pseudolysogeny? The two words are in one way or the other...
Which kind of lab is supposed to handle bacteriophages?
Bacteriophages are viruses that affect bacteria and not plants, humans,s or any other mammals; due to their specificity, it poses no harm...
The virus that lives in sputum to feed on deadly bacteria (in patients with Cystic fibrosis)
Introduction: There is a recent study about the extraction and detection of phage DNA from a sputum...
Phage therapy (Bacteriophage therapy)
Soon after Alexander Fleming’s 1928 discovery of penicillin and the beginning of Western medicine’s widespread use of...
Sewage sample collection for bacteriophage isolation
Sewage sampling Make sure you have a permit to collect samples in a specific area before you begin. In some cases, the sampling...
Sewage sample processing for bacteriophage isolation
As we have discussed earlier bacteriophages are present in the environment (Read about sewage...
Bacteriophage enumeration (plaque assay)
Principle of Phage Plaque Assay When a suspension of an infective phage (e.g. T4 phage) is spread over the lawn of susceptible bacterial...
