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Characterization of Salmonella Bacteriophages Isolated from Swine Lagoon Effluent

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Four Salmonella bacteriophages that had been originally isolated from swine manure lagoons were characterized and compared to each other and to well-known Salmonella phages P22 and Felix 01. Host ranges of the lagoon phages were similar to each other in spot tests on reference strains of Salmonella, but differed slightly from each other on a panel of Salmonella lagoon strains. In single-step growth at 35°C the lagoon phages had latent periods of 15 to 20 min and burst sizes from 100 to 230. The lagoon phages and P22 were purified by cesium chloride (CsCl) gradient centrifugation and used to produce specific antisera and DNA. The lagoon phages were indistinguishable from each other but distinct from P22 and Felix 01 in immunodiffusion and infectivity neutralization tests and in restriction digest analysis.

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Acknowledgments

We thank John P. Brooks for PCR confirmation of Salmonella lagoon isolate identifications and Renotta K. Smith and Bridget Sutton for technical assistance. This work was partially supported from Research Grant 2P20RR-16481 from the National Center for Research Resources to Rodney A. King.

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  1. United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Waste Management and Forage Research Unit, 810 Highway 12 East, P.O. Box 5367, Mississippi State, MS, 39762, USA

    Michael R. McLaughlin

  2. Department of Biology, Western Kentucky University, 1906 College Heights Boulevard, No. 11080, Bowling Green, KY, 42101-1080, USA

    Rodney A. King

  3. USDA-ARS, P.O. Box 5367, Mississippi State, MS, 39762-5367, USA

    Michael R. McLaughlin

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McLaughlin, M.R., King, R.A. Characterization of Salmonella Bacteriophages Isolated from Swine Lagoon Effluent. Curr Microbiol 56, 208–213 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00284-007-9057-9

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