The genome and proteome of a virulent Escherichia coli O157:H7 bacteriophage closely resembling Salmonella phage Felix O1

Table 1 Sensitivity and resistance of bacterial cultures to bacteriophage wV8

	Bacteria	Sensitive to bacteriophage wV8	Resistant to bacteriophage wV8
E. coli O157:H7	Reference strains of 12 common E. coli O157:H7 phage types¹ (1 strain/phage type)	All tested reference strains: phage types 1, 2, 4, 8, 14, 21, 23, 24, 31, 32, 33, 87.	None
Other E. coli	The ECOR collection²	ECOR 6 (O173:H-); ECOR 28 (O104:H2)	ECOR Strain No. 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 11, 14–19, 21–27, 29–44, 46, 48–72
Salmonella enterica	2 serovars:	None	S. Anatum, S. Hadar, S. Heidelberg, S. Infantis, S. Kentucky, S. Meleagridis, S. Muenchen, S. Munster, S. Newport, S. Thompson, S. Typhimurium, and S. Schwarzengrund

¹ The 12 most common E. coli O157:H7 phage types that represent >93% of E. coli O157:H7 isolates phage typed in Canada in 1998–99 [10].
² The ECOR collection is a reference collection of 72 strains of E. coli that represents the genotypic diversity of E. coli, as determined by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis [9].

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