Having spent considerable time on preparation of ‘bottom’ agar plates for the agar layer assay by the plaque count method1,2 and for high-titre bacterio-phage stock preparation on a large ...

The ability of the MS2 plaque reduction assay to detect antiviral activity in these known antiviral plant preparations indicates its suitability as an antiviral screening tool. An advantage of this ...

The Israeli biotech framed the figure in the context of the Klebsiella pneumoniae bacterium BX002 is designed to target. According to BiomX, the level of plaque-forming units seen in the study is ...

Traditional methods of screening plant extracts and purified components for antiviral activity require up to a week to perform, prompting the need to develop more rapid quantitative methods to measure ...