in the present study, the therapeutic potential of bacteriophages virulent to staphylococcus aureus associated with goat mastitis were isolated, identified and assessed. staphylococcus aureus (host or indicator bacterium) was isolated from a goat suffering from clinical mastitis. based on cultural, morphological, biochemical tests and amplification of s. aureus specific thermonuclease gene inpc...

Bacteriophage ecology has raised an increasing attention over the past few years, thanks to improvement and contributions of microscopy, comparative genomics viral metagenomics methods. Fermented foods host dense diverse microbial communities and, therefore, represent ideal biotope for bacteriophages. If their occurrence in such environments been demonstrated decades ago, data highlighting impa...

Background and Aims: In the current study, two bacteriophages were isolated from the wastewater sources and characterized by lytic activity against the Listeria monocytogenes (L. monocytogenes) bacterium. Materials and Methods:  50 wastewater samples were collected from the disposal sites. The phages were isolated from the treated samples using the double agar overlay method with L. monocytoge...

BACKGROUND Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most prevalent microbial diseases and their financial burden on society is substantial. The continuing increase of antibiotic resistance worldwide is alarming so that well-tolerated, highly effective therapeutic alternatives are urgently needed. OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of bacteriophages on Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pne...

This work reports stretchable gold nanowires grown on M13 bacteriophage in perovskite solar cells, which is the first demonstration of virus as a transparent electrode.

We sequenced the genome of the novel Enterobacter bacteriophage Tyrion isolated from termite gut. The bacteriophage is temperate in nature and belongs to the Podoviridae family. Many predicted bacteriophage genes showed similarity to prophage regions of the genomes of Enterobacteriaceae bacteria. This is the second bacteriophage isolated from termite gut.

Staphylococcus bacteriophage 81 is capable of in vivo interaction with Staphylococcus aureus, Type 80/81. This is immediately made evident by increased levels of bacteriophage and concomitant survival of 81 per cent infected mice. The reaction is dependent upon the use of active, type-specific bacteriophage. The maximal protective effect is observed at a bacteriophage to bacteria ratio of 1:2 a...

The recently sequenced genome of Campylobacter jejuni RM1221 revealed the presence of three integrated bacteriophage-like elements. In this study, genes from the first element, a Mu-like bacteriophage, were amplified by PCR and used to probe pulsed-field gels of clinical C. jejuni strains obtained from a waterborne outbreak (Ontario, Canada, 2000). These highly similar strains differed only by ...