Complete Genome Sequence of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteriophage pSa-3

Sang Guen Kim; Jin Woo Jun; Sib Sankar Giri; Saekil Yun; Hyoun Joong Kim; Cheng Chi; Sang Wha Kim; Se Chang Park

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00182-17

Complete Genome Sequence of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteriophage pSa-3

Genome Announc. 2017 May 25;5(21):e00182-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00182-17.

Authors

Sang Guen Kim¹, Jin Woo Jun¹, Sib Sankar Giri¹, Saekil Yun¹, Hyoun Joong Kim¹, Cheng Chi¹, Sang Wha Kim¹, Se Chang Park²

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Aquatic Biomedicine, College of Veterinary Medicine and Research Institute for Veterinary Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
² Laboratory of Aquatic Biomedicine, College of Veterinary Medicine and Research Institute for Veterinary Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea parksec@snu.ac.kr.

Abstract

Staphylococcus aureus phage pSa-3, isolated in South Korea from a sewage sample, has a 137-kb genome with 29% G+C content. This phage was targeted to control the bacteria in clinical isolates (mainly from skin lesions) and can be used in the decolonization of S. aureus.