phage typing

In the future it may complement or even replace standard techniques such as phage typing.

Phage typing is a method used for detecting single strains of bacteria.

For staphylococcal food poisoning, phage typing can be performed to determine whether the staphylococci recovered from the food were the source of infection.

Przondo-Hessek A, Slopek S, Miodonska J. 1968 Phage typing of Klebsiella rhinoscleromatis.

Mulczyk M, Slopek S, Marcinowska H. 1967 Phage typing, colicin sensitivity and colicinogeny of Shigella flexneri 6.

Slopek S, Przondo-Hessek A, Mulczyk M. 1969 New scheme of phage typing of Shigella flexneri.

In 1947, she published her best-known work, on penicillin resistance in staphylocci, proving that the bacteria were becoming more resistant to the drug over time, using the new technique of phage typing.

The host range of some bacteriophages is limited to a single strain of bacteria and they can be used to trace the source of outbreaks of infections by a method called phage typing.

Slopek S, Durlakowa I, Kucharewicz-Krukowska A, Krzywy T, Slopek A, Weber B. 1972 Phage typing of Shigella flexneri.

Indeed, the specificity of bacteriophages made them useful in identifying particular strains of bacteria, and the procedure called 'phage typing' was used for tracing the organism responsible for the spread of an infection in a community.