A rapid and simple protocol for the isolation of bacteriophages from coastal organisms

This work details a protocol for recovering bacteriophages from intertidal sessile mussels and testing their lytic activity against pathogenic bacteria. Although bacteriophages were highly abundant in coastal filter-feeding organisms, they were not detectable in the surrounding water column. This di...

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Main Authors: Alex Echeverría-Vega, Pablo Morales-Vicencio, Camila Saez-Saavedra, Felipe Gordillo-Fuenzalida, Rubén Araya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-01-01
Series:MethodsX
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221501611930305X