๐Ÿ”ฌ Preadsorption

Method employed to assure that infective centers consist predominantly of phage-infected bacteria rather than free phages.

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

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About this entry: Preadsorption 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/preadsorption.html  ·  Abedon’s Books  ·  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20173633

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Preadsorption: Method employed to assure that infective centers consist predominantly of phage-infected bacteria rather than free phages.

Discussion

<p>Preadsorption is particularly important to the extent that plaque size serves as a relevant measure, such as a surrogate for class="bap-term">phage evolutionary fitness. Preadsorption can also be important when working with phages that display slow rates of adsorption, and particularly so to the extent that this slow adsorption can impact efficiency of plating, that is, the potential for plaques to become visible to the naked eye over the course of incubation.

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

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