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SUBMITTER: Svab D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5816814 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sváb Domonkos D Falgenhauer Linda L Rohde Manfred M Szabó Judit J Chakraborty Trinad T Tóth István I
Frontiers in microbiology 20180213
During recent years, interest in the use of bacteriophages as biocontrol agents against foodborne pathogens has increased, particularly for members of the family Enterobacteriaceae, with pathogenic <i>Escherichia coli, Shigella, and Salmonella</i> strains among them. Here, we report the isolation and characterisation of 12 novel T5-like bacteriophages from confiscated food samples. All bacterophages effectively lysed <i>E. coli</i> K-12 strains and were able to infect pathogenic <i>E. coli</i> s ...[more]