Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Horiuchi T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3416177 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of virology 20120901 17
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 ...[more]