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SUBMITTER: Furusawa T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4937139 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Furusawa Takaaki T Iwano Hidetomo H Higuchi Hidetoshi H Yokota Hiroshi H Usui Masaru M Iwasaki Tomohito T Tamura Yutaka Y
The Journal of veterinary medical science 20160214 6
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a pathogen frequently identified as the cause of diverse infections or chronic disease. This microbe has natural resistance to several kinds of antibiotics, because of the species' outer membrane, efflux pumps and growth as a biofilm. This bacterium can acquire increased resistance with specific point mutations. Bacteriophage (phage), however, can lyse these bacteria. Therefore, in the present study, we assessed the host range of phages isolates and their ability to lys ...[more]