A Rational Code for Reporting Patterns in Bacteriocine and Bacteriophage Typing
- 1 February 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Microbiology Society in Journal of Medical Microbiology
- Vol. 11 (1) , 63-66
- https://doi.org/10.1099/00222615-11-1-63
Abstract
Empirical methods of assigning type designations to the patterns that describe the reactions of a bacterial isolate towards a reference set of indicator (or producer) strains resulted in loss of information and made it difficult to compare published reports. The whole pattern sequence might be considered a binary number and be translated into its decimal counterpart, which may be used as a rational, compact and meaningful type designation for reporting purposes.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: