Complete Genome Sequences of Two Escherichia coli O157:H7 Phages Effective in Limiting Contamination of Food Products

Yingying Hong; Yanying Pan; Nicholas J Harman; Paul D Ebner

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00519-14

Complete Genome Sequences of Two Escherichia coli O157:H7 Phages Effective in Limiting Contamination of Food Products

Genome Announc. 2014 Sep 11;2(5):e00519-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00519-14.

Authors

Yingying Hong¹, Yanying Pan¹, Nicholas J Harman¹, Paul D Ebner²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.
² Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA pebner@purdue.edu.

Abstract

We previously demonstrated that application of bacteriophages significantly reduced Escherichia coli O157:H7 contamination in spinach and ground beef. Here, we present the genomic sequences of two bacteriophages, vB_EcoS_FFH_1, a T5-like phage, and vB_EcoM_FFH_2, an rV5-like phage, used in those treatments.