Taxonomic changes in tailed phages of enterobacteria

H -W Ackermann; M S DuBow; M Gershman; B Karska-Wysocki; S S Kasatiya; M J Loessner; M D Mamet-Bratley; M Regué

doi:10.1007/s007050050167

Taxonomic changes in tailed phages of enterobacteria

Arch Virol. 1997 Jul;142(7):1381-1390. doi: 10.1007/s007050050167.

Authors

H -W Ackermann¹, M S DuBow², M Gershman³, B Karska-Wysocki⁴, S S Kasatiya⁵, M J Loessner⁶, M D Mamet-Bratley⁴, M Regué⁷

Affiliations

¹ Félix d'Hérelle Reference Center for Bacterial Viruses, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Quebec, Quebec, Canada, Canada.
² Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Canada.
³ Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, U.S.A., USA.
⁴ Department of Biochemistry, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Canada.
⁵ Ontario Public Health Laboratory, Ottawa, and Department of Microbiology, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Canada.
⁶ Forschungszentrum für Milch and Lebensmittel Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany, Germany.
⁷ Department de Microbiologia y Parasitologia Sanitàries, Divisiò de Ciències de la Salut, Facultat de Farmiàcia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, Spain.

PMID: 28879399
DOI: 10.1007/s007050050167

Abstract

Out of 136 new phages, 80 (59%) are classified into 23 species according to morphology and physicochemical properties. Six new species are described and species b4, from a previous classification scheme, is renamed T1. The morphology of 36 phage species is schematically represented.