Characterisation of the Novel Filamentous Phage PMBT54 Infecting the Milk Spoilage Bacteria and .

Filamentous bacteriophages are lysogenic and pseudo-lysogenic viruses that do not lyse their host but are often continuously secreted from the infected cell. They belong to the order , which encompasses three families, with the being the largest. While the number of identified inoviral sequences has greatly increased in recent years due to metagenomic studies, morphological and physiological characterisation is still restricted to only a few members of the filamentous phages.

sp. nov., isolated from bulk tank raw milk at a German dairy farm.

Here we present the description of a novel species, designated sp. nov., which was isolated from raw milk samples obtained from Germany.

sp. nov. and sp. nov., isolated from raw milk in Germany.

In this study, nine Gram-negative, motile and rod-shaped bacteria were isolated during a Germany-wide investigation of raw milk microbiota. The strains could be differentiated from their closest relatives by phenotypic and chemotaxonomic characterization and average nucleotide identity (ANIb) values calculated from draft genome assemblies. Strains MBT-1, MBT-8, MBT-9, MBT-10, MBT-11 and MBT-12 were related to the subgroup.