Isolation and Identification of Two Novel Escherichia coli Bacteriophages and Their Application in Wastewater Treatment and Coliform's Phage Therapy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Phage therapy or use of lytic bacteriophages for eliminating bacterial populations has been developed for several aspects of human affairs such as medicine, agriculture and food industries.

Objectives

The high load of coliforms of treated wastewater effluents that are discharged into the rivers or agricultural lands is a serious concern of the Iran Department of Environment and the reduction of coliforms using phages to overcome this problem is an asset. This research aimed to isolate and identify specific lytic coliphages and investigate their effects on native and standard Escherichia coli strains as well as coliform populations in municipal wastewater.

Materials and methods

The wastewater sample was cultured on selective culture media to isolate a native

SUBMITTER: Beheshti Maal K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4377173 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature