A Genomic Analysis of the Bacteriophage Kirov and Its Ability to Preserve Milk.

Bacteriophages are widely recognized as alternatives to traditional antibiotics commonly used in the treatment of bacterial infection diseases and in the food industry, as phages offer a potential solution in combating multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogens. In this study, we describe a novel bacteriophage, Kirov, which infects members of the group. Kirov is a broad-host-range phage belonging to the class.

Isolation and Characterization of Two Novel Siphoviruses Novomoskovsk and Bolokhovo, Encoding Polysaccharide Depolymerases Active against .

This study describes two novel bacteriophages infecting members of the group. Even though members of the group are not recognized as pathogenic, several strains belonging to the group have been reported to cause infectious diseases in plants, animals and humans. group species are highly resistant to ultraviolet radiation and capable of forming biofilms, which complicates their eradication.

Putative plasmid prophages of Bacillus cereus sensu lato may hold the key to undiscovered phage diversity.

Bacteriophages are bacterial viruses and the most abundant biological entities on Earth. Temperate bacteriophages can form prophages stably maintained in the host population: they either integrate into the host genome or replicate as plasmids in the host cytoplasm. As shown, tailed temperate bacteriophages may form circular plasmid prophages in many bacterial species of the taxa Firmicutes, Gammaproteobacteria and Spirochaetes.

Bacillus-infecting bacteriophage Izhevsk harbors thermostable endolysin with broad range specificity.

Several bacterial species belonging to the Bacillus cereus group are known to be causative agents of food poisoning and severe human diseases. Bacteriophages and their lytic enzymes called endolysins have been widely shown to provide for a supplemental or primary means of treating bacterial infections. In this work we present a new broad-host-range phage Izhevsk, which infects the members of the Bacillus cereus group.