A total of 354 indigenous bradyrhizobia were isolated from soybean nodules collected from five major crop grown regions. Host-specific 12 phages, each active on particular strains were selected. Factors, which influence the interaction between the host and phage, were examined. Four different types of plaques were detected. Nearly 17% of isolates were found resistant to all phages. Phage sensit...

Fourteen Staphylococcus epidermidis strains were biotyped according to the scheme of Baird-Parker and tested for their sensitivities to S. epidermidis typing phages. Tetracycline-susceptible strains were tested for the capacity to be transduced to resistance. Five strains, all of biotype 1, were lysed by one or more phages. Five of eight biotype 1 strains were transduced to tetracycline resista...

The purpose of our study was to evaluate the inclusion of seven experimental phages into the international phage set for subtyping Listeria monocytogenes. The seven additional phages included the broad-host-range virulent Myoviridae phage A511 (M. J. Loessner, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 57:1912-1918, 1991), three temperate phages from the Danish subsystem for typing serotype 1/2 strains (12682, ...

Brucellosis is a zoonotic infection that is associated with fever in humans and abortion in animals. The agent of this disease is a facultative intracellular gram-negative coccobacillus called Brucella. There are six classic species, including B. abortus, B. melitensis, B. suis, B. canis, B. neotomae, and B. ovis.  In recent years, four new species have been reported,...

bacteria strains. Their ability to a specific recognition of bacteria is used in many fields of science and technology such as bacteria identification by phage typing or as bacteria detection sensors [1]. They are also good model systems to study viral infection and replication, gene transfer, proteins folding and assembly. Bacteriophage T4 was isolated on Escherichia coli B (E. coli B) by Deme...

Most Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium strains are capable of infecting multiple hosts. In this report, an abdominal cavity abscess associated with the Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium phage type DT2 is described in a dog. A dead male dog was admitted to the Department of Pathology at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Erciyes University for necropsy. Anorexia, weight loss and l...