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SUBMITTER: Jansen M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6147977 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20180920 1
The continuing rise of infections caused by multi-drug resistant bacteria has led to a renewed interest in bacteriophage therapy. Here we characterize phage vB_AbaM-KARL-1 with lytic activity against multi-drug resistant clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii (AB). Besides genomic and phenotypic phage analysis, the objective of our study was to investigate the antibacterial outcome when the phage acts in concert with distinct antibiotics. KARL-1 belongs to the family of Myoviridae and is a ...[more]