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A Sensitive and Precise Plaque Assay for Herpes Virus

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Two techniques are at present available for the plaque assay of animal viruses. The most widely used involves the infection of monolayers of susceptible cells1: this method has been successfully applied to herpes virus by a number of authors using various cell systems2–7. The second technique, which has certain advantages over the monolayer method, uses agar-cell suspensions8: this method does not function satisfactorily with herpes virus in the cell systems tested (cf. ref. 3).

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  1. WILLIAM C. RUSSELL: Lock Research Fellow of the Royal Society of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

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RUSSELL, W. A Sensitive and Precise Plaque Assay for Herpes Virus. Nature 195, 1028–1029 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1951028a0

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