Complete genome sequence of the broad host range Acinetobacter baumannii phage EAb13

Katie R Margulieux; Jordan T Bird; Richard T Kevorkian; Damon W Ellison; Mikeljon P Nikolich; Nino Mzhavia; Andrey A Filippov

doi:10.1128/MRA.00341-23

Complete genome sequence of the broad host range Acinetobacter baumannii phage EAb13

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2023 Sep 19;12(9):e0034123. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00341-23. Epub 2023 Aug 21.

Authors

Katie R Margulieux¹, Jordan T Bird², Richard T Kevorkian¹, Damon W Ellison³, Mikeljon P Nikolich¹, Nino Mzhavia¹, Andrey A Filippov¹

Affiliations

¹ Wound Infections Department, Bacterial Diseases Branch, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research , Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.
² Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences , Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
³ Bacterial Diseases Branch, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research , Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.

Abstract

We describe the genome of a lytic phage EAb13 isolated from sewage, with broad activity against multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii. EAb13 is an unclassified siphovirus. Its genome consists of 82,411 bp, with 40.15% GC content, 126 protein-coding sequences, 1 tRNA, and 2,177 bp-long direct terminal repeats.

Keywords: Acinetobacter baumannii; broad host range; complete genome sequence; lytic phage; phage EAb13; siphovirus; therapeutic candidate.

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