Plaque

pfu=plaque forming units..those are active virus progeny.. you can calculate recombination frequency from such data..

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... the slower it moves and the harder your heart must pump to push the blood through your arteries. This thick slow moving blood makes it easier for plaque to build up on your artery walls. When plaque builds up, the risk of heart disease or other illnesses greatly increases. I'm a believer in Adamo's ...

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... should include some sort of reporter gene on your construct, and then see the outcome when you cultivate your microbe - e.g. the colour of your plaque or the ability of a colony to utilise a nutrient the target organism normally cannot use. That should allow you to calculate the relative efficiency ...

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... for the detection of phage, I suspect you first start to test environmental samples on plates containing the targeted species and then make some plaque purification.

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So out of cocci, bacilli, and spirilla, which type(s) is/are present in the mouth as part of plaque? Is there a reason for the differences in the amounts present or why some aren't present at all in the mouth?

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