Genome Sequence of a T4-like Phage, Escherichia Phage vB_EcoM-Sa45lw, Infecting Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Strains

Yen-Te Liao; Yujie Zhang; Alexandra Salvador; Vivian C H Wu

doi:10.1128/MRA.00804-19

Genome Sequence of a T4-like Phage, Escherichia Phage vB_EcoM-Sa45lw, Infecting Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Strains

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Aug 8;8(32):e00804-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00804-19.

Authors

Yen-Te Liao¹, Yujie Zhang^{1

2}, Alexandra Salvador¹, Vivian C H Wu³

Affiliations

¹ Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Western Regional Research Center, Albany, California, USA.
² College of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China.
³ Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Western Regional Research Center, Albany, California, USA vivian.wu@ars.usda.gov.

Abstract

Escherichia phage vB_EcoM-Sa45lw, a new member of the T4-like phages, was isolated from surface water in a produce-growing area. The phage, containing double-stranded DNA with a genome size of 167,353 bp and 282 predicted open reading frames (ORFs), is able to infect generic Escherichia coli and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O45 and O157 strains.