Two Newly Isolated Enterobacter-Specific Bacteriophages: Biological Properties and Stability Studies.

ABSTRACT: In an era of antibiotic therapy crisis caused by spreading antimicrobial resistance, and when recurrent urinary tract infections constitute a serious social and medical problem, the isolation and complex characterization of phages with a potential therapeutic application represents a promising solution. It is an inevitable, and even a necessary direction in the development of current phage research. In this paper, we present two newly isolated myoviruses that show lytic activity against multidrug-resistant clinical isolates of Enterobacter spp. (E. cloacae, E. hormaechei, and E. kobei), the genomes of which belong to a poorly represented phage group. Both phages were classified as part of the Tevenvirinae subfamily (Entb_43 was recognized as Karamvirus

SUBMITTER: Cieslik M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9319786 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature