Application of an Impedimetric Technique for the Detection of Lytic Infection of Salmonella spp. by Specific Phages

Table 3

Effect of cell to phage ratio on detection times.

	Detection time (hours)
Cell : phage ratio	S1400/94	869’	128’
1∶0 (a)	1.0±0.1	1.1±0.2	1.0±0.2
1∶0.1 (b)	1.1±0.2	1.0±0.3	0.9±0.3
1∶1 (c)	1.0±0.3	1.1±0.3	0.9±0.3
1∶10 (d)	4.8±0.2	4.0±0.2	4.9±0.2
1∶100 (e)	8.0±0.3	8.1±0.3	8.3±0.3

Note: Means and standard deviations are based on three experiments in duplicate.