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Isolation and genomic characterization of Staphylococcus aureus bacteriophages from Chennai, India
Shankaregowdanakopalu Jagadeesh Deepak1, Porteen Kannan1, Wilfred Ruban Savariraj2
1Department of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology, Madras Veterinary College, TANUVAS, Chennai, India.
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Abstract:
We isolated and characterized two lytic bacteriophages against Staphylococcus aureus named TANUVAS_MVC-VPHSA1 and TANUVAS_MVC-VPHSA2, with the aim of investigating their genomic and structural features. The bacteriophages belong to the Caudoviricetes, and their genomes have sizes of 50,505 and 50,516 base pairs with a GC content of 41.4%.
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