Isolation and characterisation of ΦcrAss002, a crAss-like phage from the human gut that infects Bacteroides xylanisolvens

Isolation and characterisation of ΦcrAss002, a crAss-like phage from the human gut that infects Bacteroides xylanisolvens

Abstract Background The gut phageome comprises a complex phage community of thousands of individual strains, with a few highly abundant bacteriophages. CrAss-like phages, which infect bacteria of the order Bacteroidales, are the most abundant bacteriophage family in the human gut and make an importa...

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Main Authors: Emma Guerin, Andrey N. Shkoporov, Stephen R. Stockdale, Joan Colom Comas, Ekaterina V. Khokhlova, Adam G. Clooney, Karen M. Daly, Lorraine A. Draper, Niamh Stephens, Dimitri Scholz, R. Paul Ross, Colin Hill
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-04-01
Series:Microbiome
Subjects:
Bacteriophages
crAssphage
crAss-like phages
Human gut phageome
Human microbiome
Phage-host interactions
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-021-01036-7

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