A simple apparatus was developed to allow 12 petri plates to be poured simultaneously by hand. It was used when screening bacterial isolates from sewage and dog feces for their ability to detect phages from these sources. This was done to assess the ease with which source-specific phage hosts can be isolated from these sources of fecal pollution. Host bacteria that consistently detected phages from sewage were easily isolated from sewage. These bacterial isolates did not detect phages from dog feces. Host bacteria were not isolated from dog feces even after screening hundreds of colonies from fecal samples from six dogs. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology (2000) 24, 124–126.
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Received 06 July 1999/ Accepted in revised form 05 November 1999
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Ricca, D., Cooney, J. Screening environmental samples for source-specific bacteriophage hosts using a method for the simultaneous pouring of 12 petri plates. J Ind Microbiol Biotech 24, 124–126 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.jim.2900786
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.jim.2900786