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ReviewOpen life sciences2025

Bacteriophage titering by optical density means: KOTE assays.

Stephen T Abedon

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Review in Open life sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Stephen T AbedonDepartment of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Mansfield, Ohio 44906, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9151-2375

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacteriophages, or phages, are the viruses of bacteria. Since at least the later 1940s, researchers have studied phages using spectrophotometrically determined measures of bacterial-culture turbidity (optical density). Recently, two groups have proposed the use of kinetic visualizations of phage-induced bacterial lysis to estimate phage titers ('KOTE' assays). Provided here is an overview of the two new publications and comparison of different approaches to interpreting resulting turbidimetric data. The latter includes especially peak culture turbidities (OD

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antibacterial virulenceAUClysis profiletitrevirulence

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PMID41883389
PMCPMC13011615

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