| Literature DB >> 22879611 |
Tomohiro Horiuchi1, Makiko Sakka, Atsushi Hayashi, Takashi Shimada, Tetsuya Kimura, Kazuo Sakka.
Abstract
Enterococcus faecalis is an opportunistic pathogen that causes serious infections in humans and animals and is also an important bacterium for dairy and probiotic supplement production. Therefore, bacteriophages infecting E. faecalis may be useful for phage therapy against multidrug-resistant strains or may threaten industrial fermentation. We isolated a virulent Siphoviridae bacteriophage, BC-611, specifically infecting E. faecalis strain NP-10011 but not infecting other E. faecalis strains or other enterococci. Although the genome sequence of BC-611 resembled that of enterococcal bacteriophage SAP6, BC-611 was marked by its narrow host specificity.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22879611 PMCID: PMC3416177 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01424-12
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103