Techniques

Beginners’ guide: How to Successfully Purify Your First “Phage”

Starter package, Techniques

Welcome back to the captivating world of bacteriophages, those tiny heroes that hold the power to...
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Preserving the Magic: How to Properly Store Your Phages in the Lab

BACTERIOPHAGES, Starter package, Techniques

Congratulations on successfully isolating and purifying your bacteriophages! Now, as you embark on the next phase of your phage journey, it...
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Unveiling the Hidden World of Bacteriophages: Your Guide to Successfully Isolate Your First “Phage”

Starter package, Techniques • 4 Comments

Welcome to the fascinating realm of bacteriophages, also known as “phages”! These incredible microscopic entities are like...
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Sewage Sample Collection for Bacteriophage Isolation

PROTOCOL, SAMPLE COLLECTION, Techniques

Sewage presents an ideal environment for bacteriophages to thrive, primarily because it contains...
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Phage Titering: Quantifying the Abundance and Activity of Bacteriophages

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This article is explaining the technique in theory, if you are looking for a phage titering protocol page please click here Bacteriophages,...
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Phage Spot Lysis Test: Phage detection technique

PROTOCOL, Techniques

A spot test is a technique used to determine the presence and activity of bacteriophages against specific bacterial strains. It involves...
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Sterilization by filtration method

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In microbiology, it is imperative to have sterile solutions in order to prevent contamination in...
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Plaque-Based Optimization of the Phages Lytic Characteristics

PROTOCOL, Techniques

The isolates of wild lytic phages from the transient stocks are propagated with the corresponding host bacterial isolates and the...
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Production of the Transient Phage Stock

PROTOCOL, Techniques

Procedure  Cut 5–10 plaques with a sterile Pasteur pipette and place them in 1.5 ml sterile Eppendorf micro-centrifuge tubes....
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Procedure for Phage isolation

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  Procedure Collect crude specimens of approximately 50 g or 100mls of any targeted sample in...
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