Isolation and Characterization of Temperate Phages in Enterococcus faecium from Sprouts
2014
Lee, Y.D., Gachon University, Seongnam, Republic of Korea | Park, J.H., Gachon University, Seongnam, Republic of Korea
To analyze the characteristics of bacteriophages in Enterococcus faecium, D-19 and F6 phages were induced from five E. faecium isolated from sprouts by the treatment with mitomycin C. The bacteriophages of D-19 and F-6 had long, non-contractile tails and icosahedral heads, and were members of Siphoviridae family. As the host spectrum, D-19 phage lysed five out of 55 strains of E. faecium, whereas F6 phage lysed only three strains. Both D-19 and F6 phages displayed similar and high stabilities against ethanol and pH capable of resisting the exposure to 100% ethanol and pH 4.
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