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A method is described for determination of the concentration of infectious phage particles by the direct plating plaque assay, which is simpler and faster than the double agar overlay plaque procedure outlined in the previous chapter.
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Mazzocco, A., Waddell, T.E., Lingohr, E., Johnson, R.P. (2009). Enumeration of Bacteriophages by the Direct Plating Plaque Assay. In: Clokie, M.R., Kropinski, A.M. (eds) Bacteriophages. Methods in Molecular Biology™, vol 501. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-164-6_8
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