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Costa P, Pereira C, Romalde JL, Almeida A. A game of resistance: War between bacteria and phages and how phage cocktails can be the solution. Virology 2024; 599:110209. [PMID: 39186863 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2024.110209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2024] [Revised: 08/12/2024] [Accepted: 08/14/2024] [Indexed: 08/28/2024]
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While phages hold promise as an antibiotic alternative, they encounter significant challenges in combating bacterial infections, primarily due to the emergence of phage-resistant bacteria. Bacterial defence mechanisms like superinfection exclusion, CRISPR, and restriction-modification systems can hinder phage effectiveness. Innovative strategies, such as combining different phages into cocktails, have been explored to address these challenges. This review delves into these defence mechanisms and their impact at each stage of the infection cycle, their challenges, and the strategies phages have developed to counteract them. Additionally, we examine the role of phage cocktails in the evolving landscape of antibacterial treatments and discuss recent studies that highlight the effectiveness of diverse phage cocktails in targeting essential bacterial receptors and combating resistant strains.
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- Pedro Costa
- CESAM, Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal.
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- CESAM, Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal.
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- Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, CRETUS & CIBUS - Faculty of Biology, University of Santiago de Compostela, CP 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
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- CESAM, Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal.
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Royer S, Morais AP, da Fonseca Batistão DW. Phage therapy as strategy to face post-antibiotic era: a guide to beginners and experts. Arch Microbiol 2021; 203:1271-1279. [PMID: 33474609 DOI: 10.1007/s00203-020-02167-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2020] [Revised: 11/20/2020] [Accepted: 12/27/2020] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Interest in the therapeutic use of bacteriophages (phages) has emerged in recent years, driven mainly by the antimicrobial resistance crisis. This review aimed to summarize some important studies addressing the use of phages as a therapeutic alternative for multiresistant bacterial infections. To this end, a literature search was conducted to address the efficacy and versatility of phage therapy, the advantages and disadvantages of its use, and potential limitations for the application of phage therapy that need to be overcome, especially in Western countries. Thus, this review highlights that phage therapy may be a promising route in the treatment of infections caused by multidrug-resistant pathogens and that a combined approach has the potential to prolong the life of the current available antimicrobials. In addition, standardized clinical trials using monoclonal or polyclonal phages, alone or in combination with antimicrobials, are crucial to determine the real potential of these treatments in clinical practice.
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- Sabrina Royer
- Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, Biomedical Science Institute, Federal University of Uberlandia, Uberlandia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. .,Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, Biomedical Science Institute, Federal University of Uberlandia, Uberlandia, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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- Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, Biomedical Science Institute, Federal University of Uberlandia, Uberlandia, Minas Gerais, Brazil.,Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, Biomedical Science Institute, Federal University of Uberlandia, Uberlandia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Potential for Bacteriophage Cocktail to Complement Commercial Sanitizer Use on Produce Against Escherichia coli O157:H7. Microorganisms 2020; 8:microorganisms8091316. [PMID: 32872459 PMCID: PMC7563534 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms8091316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2020] [Revised: 08/24/2020] [Accepted: 08/26/2020] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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The increasing concern for food safety has created a need to evaluate novel techniques to eliminate or control pathogens, resulting in safe food. In this study, four bacteriophages of bovine origin, specific to E. coli O157:H7, were successfully isolated and characterized. A microplate reader assay demonstrated the efficacy of the bacteriophage (phage) cocktail against E. coli O157:H7 resulting in a significant reduction (p < 0.01) in the target pathogen population. The phage cocktail demonstrated significant efficacy (p < 0.05) against E. coli O157:H7 in the presence of the most utilized sanitizers in the United States, namely 100 parts per million (ppm) free chlorine and 100-ppm peroxyacetic acid. Survival in the sanitizer concentrations demonstrates the potential use of phage cocktail and sanitizer synergistically to enhance sanitation operations in the food industry.
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Wang J, Niu YD, Chen J, Anany H, Ackermann HW, Johnson RP, Ateba CN, Stanford K, McAllister TA. Feces of feedlot cattle contain a diversity of bacteriophages that lyse non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli. Can J Microbiol 2015; 61:467-75. [PMID: 26011668 DOI: 10.1139/cjm-2015-0163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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This study aimed to isolate and characterize bacteriophages that lyse non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) from cattle feces. Of 37 non-O157 STEC-infecting phages isolated, those targeting O26 (AXO26A, AYO26A, AYO26B), O103 (AXO103A, AYO103A), O111 (AXO111A, AYO111A), O121 (AXO121A, AXO121B), and O145 (AYO145A, AYO145B) were further characterized. Transmission electron microscopy showed that the 11 isolates belonged to 3 families and 6 genera: the families Myoviridae (types rV5, T4, ViI, O1), Siphoviridae (type T5), and Podoviridae (type T7). Genome size of the phages as determined by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis ranged from 38 to 177 kb. Excluding phages AXO26A, AYO103A, AYO145A, and AYO145B, all other phages were capable of lysing more than 1 clinically important strain from serogroups of O26, O91, O103, O111, O113, O121, and O128, but none exhibited infectivity across all serogroups. Moreover, phages AYO26A, AXO121A, and AXO121B were also able to lyse 4 common phage types of STEC O157:H7. Our findings show that a diversity of non-O157 STEC-infecting phages are harbored in bovine feces. Phages AYO26A, AYO26B, AXO103A, AXO111A, AYO111A, AXO121A, and AXO121B exhibited a broad host range against a number of serogroups of STEC and have potential for the biocontrol of STEC in the environment.
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- Jiaying Wang
- a College of Veterinary Medicine, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510642, People's Republic of China.,c Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge, AB T1J 4B1, Canada
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- b Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, Lethbridge, AB T1J 4V6, Canada
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- a College of Veterinary Medicine, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510642, People's Republic of China
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- d Department of Food Science, Canadian Research Institute for Food Safety, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada.,e Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
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- f Département de microbiologie, Faculté de médecine, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1K 7P4, Canada
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- g Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses, Public Health Agency of Canada, Guelph, ON N1G 3W4, Canada
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- h Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture Science and Technology, North West University-Mafikeng Campus, North West, Mmabatho 2735, South Africa
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- b Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, Lethbridge, AB T1J 4V6, Canada
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- c Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge, AB T1J 4B1, Canada
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Switt AIM, Sulakvelidze A, Wiedmann M, Kropinski AM, Wishart DS, Poppe C, Liang Y. Salmonella phages and prophages: genomics, taxonomy, and applied aspects. Methods Mol Biol 2015; 1225:237-87. [PMID: 25253259 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1625-2_15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Since this book was originally published in 2007 there has been a significant increase in the number of Salmonella bacteriophages, particularly lytic virus, and Salmonella strains which have been fully sequenced. In addition, new insights into phage taxonomy have resulted in new phage genera, some of which have been recognized by the International Committee of Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). The properties of each of these genera are discussed, along with the role of phage as agents of genetic exchange, as therapeutic agents, and their involvement in phage typing.
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- Andrea I Moreno Switt
- Facultad de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Universidad Andres Bello, Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Republica 440, 8370251, Santiago, Chile
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T4-like phage Bp7, a potential antimicrobial agent for controlling drug-resistant Escherichia coli in chickens. Appl Environ Microbiol 2013; 79:5559-65. [PMID: 23835183 DOI: 10.1128/aem.01505-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Chicken-pathogenic Escherichia coli is severely endangering the poultry industry in China and worldwide, and antibiotic therapy is facing an increasing problem of antibiotic resistance. Bacteriophages can kill bacteria with no known activity in human or animal cells, making them an attractive alternative to antibiotics. In this study, we present the characteristics of a novel virulent bacteriophage, Bp7, specifically infecting pathogenic multidrug-resistant E. coli. Phage Bp7 was isolated from chicken feces. Bp7 belongs to the family Myoviridae, possessing an elongated icosahedral head and contractile sheathed tail. It has a 168-kb double-stranded DNA genome. For larger yields, its optimal multiplicity of infection (MOI) to infect E. coli was about 0.001. The latent period was 10 to 15 min, and the burst size was 90 PFU/infected cell. It was stable both at pH 5.0 to 10.0 and at 40°C or 50°C for at least 1 h. Bp7 could infect 46% of pathogenic clinical E. coli strains. Bp7 harbored 791 open reading frames (ORFs) and 263 possible genes. Among the 263 genes, 199 possessed amino acid sequence identities with ORFs of phage T4, 62 had identities with other T4-like phages, and only one lacked any database match. The genome of Bp7 manifested obvious division and rearrangement compared to phages T4, JS98, and IME08. Bp7 is a new member of the "T4-like" genus, family Myoviridae. Its wide host range, strong cell-killing activity, and high stability to pH make it an alternative to antimicrobials for controlling drug-resistant E. coli in chickens.
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Bobay LM, Rocha EPC, Touchon M. The adaptation of temperate bacteriophages to their host genomes. Mol Biol Evol 2012; 30:737-51. [PMID: 23243039 PMCID: PMC3603311 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Rapid turnover of mobile elements drives the plasticity of bacterial genomes. Integrated bacteriophages (prophages) encode host-adaptive traits and represent a sizable fraction of bacterial chromosomes. We hypothesized that natural selection shapes prophage integration patterns relative to the host genome organization. We tested this idea by detecting and studying 500 prophages of 69 strains of Escherichia and Salmonella. Phage integrases often target not only conserved genes but also intergenic positions, suggesting purifying selection for integration sites. Furthermore, most integration hotspots are conserved between the two host genera. Integration sites seem also selected at the large chromosomal scale, as they are nonrandomly organized in terms of the origin-terminus axis and the macrodomain structure. The genes of lambdoid prophages are systematically co-oriented with the bacterial replication fork and display the host high frequency of polarized FtsK-orienting polar sequences motifs required for chromosome segregation. matS motifs are strongly avoided by prophages suggesting counter selection of motifs disrupting macrodomains. These results show how natural selection for seamless integration of prophages in the chromosome shapes the evolution of the bacterium and the phage. First, integration sites are highly conserved for many millions of years favoring lysogeny over the lytic cycle for temperate phages. Second, the global distribution of prophages is intimately associated with the chromosome structure and the patterns of gene expression. Third, the phage endures selection for DNA motifs that pertain exclusively to the biology of the prophage in the bacterial chromosome. Understanding prophage genetic adaptation sheds new lights on the coexistence of horizontal transfer and organized bacterial genomes.
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- Louis-Marie Bobay
- Microbial Evolutionary Genomics Group, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
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Turner D, Hezwani M, Nelson S, Salisbury V, Reynolds D. Characterization of the Salmonella bacteriophage vB_SenS-Ent1. J Gen Virol 2012; 93:2046-2056. [PMID: 22694898 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.043331-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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The bacteriophage vB_SenS-Ent1 (Ent1) is a member of the family Siphoviridae of tailed bacteriophages and infects a broad range of serovars of the enteric pathogen Salmonella enterica. The virion particle is composed of an icosahedral head 64 nm in diameter and a flexible, non-contractile tail of 116 × 8.5 nm possessing terminal fibres. The adsorption rate constant at 37 °C is 6.73 × 10(-9) ml min(-1). Latent and eclipse periods are 25 and 20 min, respectively, and the burst size is 35 progeny particles per cell after 35 min at 37 °C. Sequencing revealed a circularly permuted, 42 391 bp dsDNA genome containing 58 ORFs organized into four major transcriptional units. Comparisons with the genome sequences of other bacteriophages revealed a high level of nucleotide sequence identity and shared orthologous proteins with the Salmonella phages SETP3, SE2 and KS7 (SS3e) and the Escherichia phages K1G, K1H, K1ind1 and K1ind3.
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- Dann Turner
- Centre for Research in Biosciences, Department of Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY, UK
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- Centre for Research in Biosciences, Department of Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY, UK
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- Centre for Research in Biosciences, Department of Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY, UK
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- Centre for Research in Biosciences, Department of Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY, UK
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- Centre for Research in Biosciences, Department of Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY, UK
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Wang S, Zhao W, Raza A, Friendship R, Johnson R, Kostrzynska M, Warriner K. Prevalence of Salmonella infecting bacteriophages associated with Ontario pig farms and the holding area of a high capacity pork processing facility. JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 2010; 90:2318-2325. [PMID: 20661898 DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.4090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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BACKGROUND There is interest in applying bacteriophages to control Salmonella in pig production and pork processing. The following reports on the prevalence of Salmonella infecting bacteriophages within Ontario pig farms and associated with the holding area of a pork slaughterhouse. RESULTS Salmonella infecting bacteriophages were present in 30 and 28 of the effluent manure samples collected from 36 farms using S. Typhimurium DT104 or S. Heidelberg as host cell respectively. Bacteriophages were recovered in 95-100% of the 48 samples taken from holding pens within a high capacity slaughterhouse over a 12 month period. Bacteriophages isolated from farms exhibited similar host ranges which differed to that of slaughterhouse isolates. Salmonella (n = 21) from the slaughterhouse were susceptible to the endogenous bacteriophages. Despite being susceptible to the resident phages, the Salmonella populations were found to be genetically stable with the same genotypes being recovered over successive visits. Salmonella isolated from the farms were frequently resistant to the endogenous phages. CONCLUSIONS Bacteriophages are prevalent in the pig slaughterhouse environment although they do not have a significant impact on the genetic structure of Salmonella populations. However, there was evidence that the Salmonella population structure on farms is influenced by the presence of infecting phages.
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- Sunan Wang
- Department of Food Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
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Klumpp J, Lavigne R, Loessner MJ, Ackermann HW. The SPO1-related bacteriophages. Arch Virol 2010; 155:1547-61. [PMID: 20714761 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-010-0783-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2010] [Accepted: 07/30/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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A large and diverse group of bacteriophages has been termed 'SPO1-like viruses'. To date, molecular data and genome sequences are available for Bacillus phage SPO1 and eight related phages infecting members of other bacterial genera. Many additional bacteriophages have been described as SPO1-related, but very few data are available for most of them. We present an overview of putative 'SPO1-like viruses' and shall discuss the available data in view of the recently proposed expansion of this group of bacteriophages to the tentative subfamily Spounavirinae. Characteristics of SPO1-related phages include (a) the host organisms are Firmicutes; (b) members are strictly virulent myoviruses; (c) all phages feature common morphological properties; (d) the phage genome consists of a terminally redundant, non-permuted dsDNA molecule of 127-157 kb in size; and (e) phages share considerable amino acid homology. The number of phages isolated consistent with these parameters is large, suggesting a ubiquitous nature of this group of viruses.
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- Jochen Klumpp
- Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, Schmelzbergstrasse 7, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Villegas A, She YM, Kropinski AM, Lingohr EJ, Mazzocco A, Ojha S, Waddell TE, Ackermann HW, Moyles DM, Ahmed R, Johnson RP. The genome and proteome of a virulent Escherichia coli O157:H7 bacteriophage closely resembling Salmonella phage Felix O1. Virol J 2009; 6:41. [PMID: 19379502 PMCID: PMC2674420 DOI: 10.1186/1743-422x-6-41] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2008] [Accepted: 04/20/2009] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Based upon whole genome and proteome analysis, Escherichia coli O157:H7-specific bacteriophage (phage) wV8 belongs to the new myoviral genus, "the Felix O1-like viruses" along with Salmonella phage Felix O1 and Erwinia amylovora phage φEa21-4. The genome characteristics of phage wV8 (size 88.49 kb, mol%G+C 38.9, 138 ORFs, 23 tRNAs) are very similar to those of phage Felix O1 (86.16 kb, 39.0 mol%G+C, 131 ORFs and 22 tRNAs) and, indeed most of the proteins have their closest homologs within Felix O1. Approximately one-half of the Escherichia coli O157:H7 mutants resistant to phage wV8 still serotype as O157:H7 indicating that this phage may recognize, like coliphage T4, two different surface receptors: lipopolysaccharide and, perhaps, an outer membrane protein.
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- Andre Villegas
- Public Health Agency of Canada, Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses, 110 Stone Road West, Guelph, ON, N1G 3W4, Canada.
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