Articles tagged with typing methods.
What a bacteriocin is, how it differs from an antibiotic and a bacterial toxin, why bacteria make them (bacterial antagonism), how they kill target cells, and why bacteriocins like...
What bacterial typing methods are and why they matter in epidemiology, the attributes of a good typing method, the phenotypic and molecular (genotypic) methods, and how to choose t...
How phage typing uses a bacterium's pattern of susceptibility to a phage panel to trace outbreaks, and why a "positive" result means the phage won.
What a serotype is in microbiology, how serotype differs from serovar, serogroup, and strain, how serotyping is done (Kauffmann-White, Quellung, agglutination), and why serotypes m...
