StM171, a Bacteriophage That Affects Sensitivity to Antibiotics in Host Bacteria and Their Biofilm Formation.

mainly causes respiratory infections that are associated with a high mortality rate among immunocompromised patients. exhibits a high level of antibiotic resistance and can form biofilms, which complicates the treatment of patients infected with this bacterium. Phages combined with antibiotics could be a promising treatment option.

Identification, Characterization, and Genome Analysis of Two Novel Temperate Phages PseuP_222 and PseuP_224.

Two novel bacteriophages PseuP_222 and Pseu_224 and their host CEMTC 4060 were isolated from the same sample (Inya river, Siberia). Both phages have siphovirus morphology and belong to lambdoid phages. Comparative genome analysis revealed a low nucleotide and amino acid sequence similarity of PseuP_222 and PseuP_224 between themselves, and between them and other lambdoid phages.

A Novel Phage AerP_220 Proposed to Be a Member of a New Genus in the Family.

is one of the environmental species. A number of factors of virulence have been described for this species and it has been reported as a causative agent of urinary tract infection. The first bacteriophage AerP_220 along with its host strain CEMTC 4062 were isolated from river water.

A New Bacteriophage EC151 Encodes the Deazaguanine DNA Modification Pathway and Represents a New Genus within the Siphoviridae Family.

A novel phage, EC151, was isolated and characterized. Electron microscopy revealed that EC151 has a siphovirus-like virion morphology. The EC151 nucleotide sequence shows limited similarity to other phage genomes deposited in the NCBI GenBank database.