Host range is a major determinant in the industrial utility of a bacteriophage. A model host
range permits broad recognition across serovars of a target bacterium while avoiding cross …

Campylobacter jejuni continues to be the leading cause of bacterial food-borne illness
worldwide, so improvements to current methods used for bacterial detection and disease …

Salmonella enterica serovar Weltevreden is a foodborne pathogen commonly transmitted
through fresh vegetables and seafood. In this study, a lytic phage, SW16-7, was isolated …

Phages belonging to the Ackermannviridae family encode up to four tail spike proteins
(TSPs), each recognizing a specific receptor of their bacterial hosts. Here, we determined …

The rise of antimicrobial resistance is a global public health crisis that threatens the effective
control and prevention of infections. Due to the emergence of pandrug-resistant bacteria …

Background The host-unrestricted, non-typhoidal Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis (S.
Enteritidis) and the serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) are major causative agents of …

Research on the initial phage–host interaction has been conducted on a limited repertoire of
phages and their cognate receptors, such as phage λ and the Escherichia coli LamB (Ec …

Bacteriophages (phages) are widely used as biocontrol agents in food and as antibacterial
agents for treatment of food production plant surfaces. An important feature of such phages …

Bacteriophages provide excellent tools for diagnostics, remediation, and targeted
microbiome manipulation, yet isolating viruses with suitable host specificity remains …

Bacteriophages, the most abundant organisms on earth, have the potential to address the
rise of multidrug-resistant bacteria resulting from the overuse of antibiotics. However, their …