Fig. 5From: Encapsulation of E. coli phage ZCEC5 in chitosan–alginate beads as a delivery system in phage therapya The stability of non-encapsulated and encapsulated bacteriophages against high temperature (80 °C) for 3 min. b Low pH stability of the non-encapsulated and encapsulated bacteriophages 1 h at 37 °C. Limit of detection is < 103 PFU mL−1Back to article page