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Biology and Genomics of an Historic Therapeutic Escherichia coli Bacteriophage Collection
30 Aug 2017
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We have performed microbiological and genomic characterisation of an historic collection of nine bacteriophages, specifically infecting a K1 E. coli O18:K1:H7 ColV+ strain. These phages were isolated from sewage and tested for their efficacy in vivo for the treatment of systemic E. coli infection in a mouse infection model by Smith and Huggins, 1982. The aim of the study was to identify common microbiological and...
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