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Batch Culture of Bacteriophages

Bacteriophages infecting a bacteria

Bacteriophages infecting a bacteria

Virus or phage cultures require host cells in which to multiply. For bacteriophages, cultures are grown by infecting bacterial cells. The phage can then be isolated from the resulting plaques in a lawn of bacteria on a plate.

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