Three Phages One Host: Isolation and Characterization of Pantoea agglomerans Phages from a Grasshopper Specimen.

ABSTRACT: The bacterial genus Pantoea comprises species found in a variety of different environmental sources. Pantoea spp. are often recovered from plant material and are capable of both benefitting the plants and acting like phytopathogens. Some species of Pantoea (including P. agglomerans) are considered opportunistic human pathogens capable of causing various infections in immunocompromised subjects. In this study, a strain of P. agglomerans (identified by 16S rRNA gene sequencing) was isolated from a dead specimen of an unidentified Latvian grasshopper species. The retrieved strain of P. agglomerans was then used as a host for the potential retrieval of phages from the same source material. After rounds of plaque purification and propagation, three high

SUBMITTER: Zrelovs N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9915841 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature