Complete Genome Sequences of Broad-Host-Range Pseudomonas aeruginosa Bacteriophages ΦR18 and ΦS12-1

Takaaki Furusawa; Hidetomo Iwano; Hidetoshi Higuchi; Masaru Usui; Fumito Maruyama; Ichiro Nakagawa; Hiroshi Yokota; Yutaka Tamura

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00041-16

Complete Genome Sequences of Broad-Host-Range Pseudomonas aeruginosa Bacteriophages ΦR18 and ΦS12-1

Genome Announc. 2016 May 5;4(3):e00041-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00041-16.

Authors

Takaaki Furusawa¹, Hidetomo Iwano², Hidetoshi Higuchi³, Masaru Usui⁴, Fumito Maruyama⁵, Ichiro Nakagawa⁵, Hiroshi Yokota¹, Yutaka Tamura⁴

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Veterinary Biochemistry, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, Hokkaido, Japan.
² Laboratory of Veterinary Biochemistry, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, Hokkaido, Japan h-iwano@rakuno.ac.jp.
³ Laboratory of Veterinary Hygiene, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, Hokkaido, Japan.
⁴ Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Food Safety, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, Hokkaido, Japan.
⁵ Department of Microbiology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.

Abstract

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an important cause of racehorse keratitis. Bacteriophage therapy has the potential to aid in the prevention and treatment of diseases caused by P. aeruginosa We present here the complete genome sequences of two phages, ΦR18 and ΦS12-1, which exhibit infectivity for a broad range of P. aeruginosa isolates.