A Transducing Bacteriophage Infecting Staphylococcus epidermidis Contributes to the Expansion of a Novel Siphovirus Genus and Implies the Genus Is Inappropriate for Phage Therapy

ABSTRACT The effort to discover novel phages infecting Staphylococcus epidermidis contributes to both the development of phage therapy and the expansion of genome-based phage phylogeny. Here, we report the genome of an S. epidermidis-infecting phage, Lacachita, and compare its genome with those of f...

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Published in:	mSphere
Main Authors:	Taylor Andrews, J. Steen Hoyer, Karolyn Ficken, Paul D. Fey, Siobain Duffy, Jeffrey M. Boyd
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	American Society for Microbiology 2023-06-01
Subjects:	Staphylococcus epidermidis bacteriophage genetics bacteriophage therapy extrachromosomal prophage
Online Access:	https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msphere.00524-22