Application of direct plaque assay for detection and enumeration of bacteriophages of Bacteroides fragilis from contaminated-water samples.

AUTOR(ES)

Cornax, R

RESUMO

The direct double-agar-layer plaque assay for the detection and enumeration of specific bacteriophages of Bacteroides fragilis from contaminated-water samples was performed. Several factors that affect the methods, such as conditions of the bacterial culture, composition of the assay medium, addition of divalent cations, and decontamination techniques applied to the sample, were evaluated. The results obtained show that the direct assay technique proved to be more efficient than the most-probable-number technique. A higher recovery of bacteriophages was obtained from 17 of 24 samples with the direct assay. The two methods only showed similar results from samples with a low degree of pollution.

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