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Abstract
Bacteriophages are the most numerous biological entities in the biosphere, and although their genetic diversity is high, it remains ill defined. Mycobacteriophages-the viruses of mycobacterial hosts-provide insights into this diversity as well as tools for manipulating Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We report here the complete genome sequences of 138 new mycobacteriophages, which-together with the 83 mycobacteriophages previously reported-represent the largest collection of phages known to infect a single common host, Mycobacterium smegmatis mc(2) 155.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22282335 PMCID: PMC3302410 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.06870-11
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103