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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Dalmasso M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4580409 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20150923 9
Streptococcus mutans is one of the principal agents of caries formation mainly, because of its ability to form biofilms at the tooth surface. Bacteriophages (phages) are promising antimicrobial agents that could be used to prevent or treat caries formation by S. mutans. The aim of this study was to isolate new S. mutans phages and to characterize their antimicrobial properties. A new phage, ɸAPCM01, was isolated from a human saliva sample. Its genome was closely related to the only two other ava ...[more]