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SUBMITTER: Melo LD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4923195 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Melo Luís D R LD Veiga Patrícia P Cerca Nuno N Kropinski Andrew M AM Almeida Carina C Azeredo Joana J Sillankorva Sanna S
Frontiers in microbiology 20160628
Proteus mirabilis is an enterobacterium that causes catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) due to its ability to colonize and form crystalline biofilms on the catheters surface. CAUTIs are very difficult to treat, since biofilm structures are highly tolerant to antibiotics. Phages have been used widely to control a diversity of bacterial species, however, a limited number of phages for P. mirabilis have been isolated and studied. Here we report the isolation of two novel virulent ...[more]