Development of a microplate assay for the detection of single plaque-forming units of bacteriophage φX174 in crude lysates

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 121-125

  Slattery, Scott D ^a,b   Valentine, Carrie R ^a  

^a National Center for Toxicology Research   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

X174; Gene A forward mutational assay; Single burst analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIOPHAGE; CELL LYSATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MICROPLATE ASSAY; NONHUMAN; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS PLAQUE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOPHAGE PHI X 174; CELL DIVISION; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PLAQUE ASSAY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TETRAZOLIUM SALTS; TRANSGENES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0037229327     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/em.10140     Document Type: Article

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