Biological characterization of v. Cholerae-specific bacteriophages isolated from water sources in Georgia.

Vibrio cholerae, a widely spread bacterium in various marine, fresh, and brackish water environments, can cause a devastating diarrheal disease - cholera and also mild forms of gastroenteritis. Bacterial viruses are natural controllers of bacterial population density in water systems. The goal of this study was to isolate and characterize V.

[New systems of host specificity of DNA Pae 610 and Pae 603].

In order to find new systems of host specificity (SHS), wide screening among different strains of Ps. aeruginosa was carried out. By means of cross-titration of phages BT and FP-series two new systems of modification-restriction were identified: Pae 610 and Pae 603.