๐Ÿ”ฌ Plaque Morphology

Description of differences especially in the turbidity of phage-induced clearings of bacterial lawns though also the size of those clearings.

by Stephen T. Abedon Ph.D. (abedon.1@osu.edu)

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About this entry: Plaque Morphology is one of a growing set of phage biology and phage therapy terms defined here. For more phage terms, see Abedon, S.T. (2025). Phage Therapy Annotated Glossary. Preprints.org. 10.20944/preprints202508.0347.v1

phage.org/terms/plaque_morphology.html  ·  Abedon’s Books  ·  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20173633

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Plaque Morphology: Description of differences especially in the turbidity of phage-induced clearings of bacterial lawns though also the size of those clearings.

Discussion

<p>Plaque morphologies can differ with phage isolate, phage mutations, bacterial properties, and environmental medical+condition" class="bap-term">conditions. That latter can include such things as temperate, media chemical make up, the density of bacteria applied to initiate the lawn, and the density of agar present in media, etc.

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Abedon, S.T. (2026). Phage Terms. https://terms.phage.org  ·  10.5281/zenodo.20173633

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