Biodiversity of bacteriophages: morphological and biological properties of a large group of phages isolated from urban sewage.

ABSTRACT: A large scale analysis presented in this article focuses on biological and physiological variety of bacteriophages. A collection of 83 bacteriophages, isolated from urban sewage and able to propagate in cells of different bacterial hosts, has been obtained (60 infecting Escherichia coli, 10 infecting Pseudomonas aeruginosa, 4 infecting Salmonella enterica, 3 infecting Staphylococcus sciuri, and 6 infecting Enterococcus faecalis). High biological diversity of the collection is indicated by its characteristics, both morphological (electron microscopic analyses) and biological (host range, plaque size and morphology, growth at various temperatures, thermal inactivation, sensitivity to low and high pH, sensitivity to osmotic stress, survivability upon treatment with organic solvents and deterg

SUBMITTER: Jurczak-Kurek A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5048108 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature