Background: The quality of coastal waters around the United Kingdom is an area of
increasing concern following sewer overflow, where wastewater is discharged into the …

The rise of antibiotic resistance in bacterial strains has led to vigorous exploration for
alternative treatments. To this end, phage therapy has been revisited, and it is gaining …

Bacteriophages infecting Escherichia coli (coliphages) have been used as a proxy for faecal
matter and water quality from a variety of environments. However, the diversity of coliphages …

This work describes the characterization and genome annotation of a new lytic
Enterococcus faecalis siphovirus, vB_EfaS_AL3 (referred to as AL3), isolated from …

ABSTRACT A bacteriophage that is able to infect Hafnia alvei and can also infect two other
hosts, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Salmonella enterica, was isolated from wastewater. The …

To date, a few numbers of bacteriophages that infect Lactococcus garvieae have been
identified, but their complete genome sequences have not yet been investigated. For the first …

Escherichia coli (E. coli) is one of the most common uropathogenic bacteria. The emergence
of multi-drug resistance among these bacteria resulted in a worldwide public health problem …

Abstract Characterization of bacteriophages facilitates better understanding of their biology,
host specificity, genomic diversity, and adaptation to their bacterial hosts. This, in turn, is …

A virulent phage, named ST20, infecting Escherichia coli O165: H8 was isolated from
wastewater and subjected to genomic sequencing using the Illumina HiSeq system …

Bacteriophages (phages) are potential alternatives to chemical antimicrobials against
pathogens of public health significance. Understanding the diversity and host specificity of …