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Accepted posters
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Host range and comparative genomic analysis on three similar Myoviridae
Jude Ajuebor1, Aoife Keating1, Adonai Djankah1, Olivia McAuliffe2, Jim O’Mahony1, Paul R. Ross3, Colin Hill3 and Aidan Coffey1,3
1 Department of Biological Sciences, Cork Institute of Technology, Bishopstown, Cork, Ireland
2 Teagasc, Moorepark Food Research Centre, Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland
3 APC Microbiome Institute, University College Cork, Ireland
Staphylococcus aureus is an important pathogen, causing diseases in both humans and animals. Owing to the prevalence of methicillin resistance in S. aureus, many antibiotics are becoming redundant. As such, bacteriophage therapy is a promising option in controlling antibiotic resistant infectious pathogens. In this study, we described the distinct host ranges of three highly similar Myoviridae against several clinical isolates including all the MRSA sequence types from the Irish National MRSA…
Isolation and characterisation of bacteriophages infecting lyme Borrelia species
Lamiaa Fingan Al-Maliki1,2, Martha Clokie1, Ed Galyov1, Jinyu Shan1
1 Department of infection, immunity and inflammation, University of Leicester. Leicestershire LE1 7RH, UK
2 Department of Biotechnology, college of science, University of AL Nahrain. Baghdad. Iraq
Lyme borreliosis (LB) is caused by Borrelia spp. It is the most common vector-borne disease in the Northern Hemisphere. The disease is transmitted to humans by ticks. LB is treated with amoxicillin and doxycycline and there are currently no vaccines available. In many cases patients may suffer from persistent long-term symptoms, so called ‘chronic Lyme disease’, which could be due to antibiotic resistant bacteria. Therefore, alternative LB therapies are needed. Phages may complement or substitute the current treatments and may provide a diagnostic…
Bacteriophage-Bacteria-Amoeba Interactions
Wafaa AlRashidi1, 2, Martha Clokie1, Eduard Galyov1
1 Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, university road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
2 Ministry of Health, Department of Medical Laboratory and Clinical Microbiology, Farwania Hospital, Kuwait
In natural environments, bacteriophage have a major influence on controlling bacterial population, as they would directly kill their bacterial host in their lytic life cycle, or may alter the bacterial phenotypic characteristics while integrating to their genomes through the lysogenic life cycle. However, and as it is apparent that in many environments, pathogenic bacteria can survive despite the abundance of bacteriophages and could transmit into the environment and into susceptible hosts…
Isolation and Identification of Bacteriophage against Elizabethkingia meningoseptica from Sewage Water
Ibtisam Mohammed Al-Shilli and Asdren Zajmi
Department of Diagnostic and Allied Health Science, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Management & Science University, 40150 Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia
Elizabithkingia meningoseptica is a rare gram-negative bacterium that mainly causes meningitis especially in neonates and immunocompromised patients. It is resistant to many antibiotics including beta-lactams. Bacteriophage therapy is known to be safer option against such antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Since no bacteriophage has been found against E. meningoseptica, the aim of this research is to isolate and identify bacteriophage against this bacterium from sewage waters…
Factors contributing to the control of ARTHROSPIRA FUSIFORMIS in East African soda lakes
Aisha S Amer1, 3, David M Harper2 and Martha RJ Clokie1
1 Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
2 Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behavior, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
3 Department of Biology, University of Tripoli, Libya
East Africa’s Central Rift Valley has the largest population of lesser flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor) in the world. The diet of lesser flamingos consists almost entirely of Arthrospira fusiformis. Unfortunately, in recent years, an irregular and unpredictable crash in the density of the Arthrospira population has been reported. The aim of this study is to investigate the role of cyanobacteriophages in regulating the Arthrospira biomass in some alkaline-saline lakes by metagenomic, microscopy and cultures techniques…
Isolation and characterization of bacteriophages specific to Clostridium bifermentans
Wichuda Phothichaisri1, Tavan Janvilisri1, Puey Ounjai2, Surang Chankhamhaengdecha2, Amornrat Aroonnual3
1 Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
2 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
3 Department of Tropical Nutrition and Food Science, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
Clostridium bifermentans is an anaerobic bacterium, which is useful for various fermentation processes. It is capable of converting organic wastes into biofuel or important metabolites, such as alcohol and lactic acid. However, knowledge on bacteriophage specific to this organism, which is the factor to increase stability and productivity of using this fermenting bacterium, is still limited. In this study, two bacteriophages were isolated from soil samples. Both of them showed lytic activity against tested C. bifermentans strains…
Isolation and Characterization of a Novel Jumbo Phage Infecting Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1
Mohammed A Imam, Nathan M Brown, Martha R J Clokie, Edouard E Galyov
Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Maurice Shock Medical Sciences Building, Leicester, LE1 9HN, UK
Phages are the most abundant biological entity on earth. There are many variants in phages size, morphology and genomics. Large virion size phages have been previously identified, which are phages with genome sizes larger than 200 kbp and have been termed Jumbo phages. They exhibit several novel characteristics that have not been observed for phages with smaller genomes. Environmental samples containing nanostructures similar sizes to phages may cause difficulties in phages isolation process using the conventional filtration methods…
Optimization of lytic phage manufacturing in bioreactor using monolithic supports
Thomas D Kostelec, Ales Strancar, Sebastijan Peljhan
BIA Separations d.o.o., Mirce 21, 5270 Ajdovščina, Slovenia
A process for manufacturing large quantities of lytic bacteriophages was developed. Determination of cultivation termination was found to be essential to achieve high phage quantity and purity. When optimal cultivation termination is missed, phage fraction was found to be highly contaminated with deoxyribonucleic acid released from Escherichia coli cells. Besides, an already established method for monitoring of phage cultivation based on optical density, where its peak indicates point when maximal phage titer is achieved…
Phage-host interactions of the dairy bacterium Streptococcus thermophilus
Katherine Lavelle 1,2, Ines Martinez 3, Gabriele A. Lugli 4, Marco Ventura 4, Fabio dal Bello 3, Douwe van Sinderen 1,2 and Jennifer Mahony 1,2
1 School of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
2 APC Microbiome Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
3 Sacco s.r.l., Cadorago, Italy
4 Laboratory of Probiogenomics, Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
Bacteriophages (or phages) capable of infecting dairy starter cultures, which are employed in the conversion of milk to products such as yogurt and cheese, are a major threat to the dairy fermentation industry. In this context, their presence and proliferation may lead to slowing or complete failure of the fermentation and are widely associated with inconsistencies in cheese production. Until recently, S. thermophilus phages were classified into two groups based on their mode of DNA packaging into the phage head…
Control of Salmonella Enteritidis on food contact surfaces with bacteriophage PVP-SE2
Catarina Milho, Maria D Silva, Luís Melo, Sílvio Santos, Joana Azeredo, Sanna Sillankorva
Centre of Biological Engineering, LIBRO – Laboratório de Investigação em Biofilmes Rosário Oliveira, University of Minho, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
Salmonella is regarded as a major foodborne pathogen, being responsible for a great number of illnesses and hospitalizations worldwide. Salmonella’s pathogenicity is often linked to its ability to form biofilms in different surfaces. (Bacterio)phages, which are natural killers of bacteria and innocuous to humans and animals, are considered great candidates to control bacterial pathogens. Herein, we characterize a S. Enteritidis phage, PVP-SE2, concerning not only its morphological and genomic characteristics, but also its ability to…
Identification of novel prophage-like elements in the genomes of Legionella spp
Neda Nezam-Abadi, Christopher JR Turkington, Martha RJ Clokie, Edouard Galyov
Department of Infection, Immunity, and Inflammation, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 9HN, UK
Legionella spp. are waterborne pathogens that can causes Legionnaires’ disease, a potentially fatal acute pneumonia. These pathogens have been shown to be resistant to many disinfectants, and beta-lactam antibiotics. Furthermore, detection of Legionella spp. is often difficult, thus Legionella spp. infections can be difficult to both treat and diagnose. As such there is a great need to identify more accurate diagnostic tools and more effective therapeutic agents against Legionella spp. Bacteriophages are a potential tool to be exploited for this purpose with bacteriophage based diagnostics already developed for Bacillus anthracis, Mycobacterium spp, and Yersinia pestis…
Antimicrobial interaction of honey and phage against E. coli biofilms
Ana Oliveira, Henrique Ribeiro, Ana C. Silva, Maria D. Silva, Jessica C. Sousa, Célia F. Rodrigues , Luís D.R. Melo, Sanna Sillankorva
CEB – Centre of Biological Engineering, Universidade do Minho, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
Chronic wounds afford a hostile environment of damaged tissues that allow bacterial proliferation and further wound colonization. Wound colonization by bacterial biofilms is one of the main obstacles of chronic wounds healing. Escherichia coli is among the most common colonizers of infected wounds and it is a prolific biofilm former. Living in biofilm communities, cells are protected, become more difficult to control and eradicate, and less susceptible to antibiotic therapy. Bacteriophages (phages), and bee hive products such as honey…
Characterisation and application of four novel phages in eradication of Staphylococcus aureus biofilm
WANCHAT SIRISARN and GUOQING XIA
Division of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health. University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT, United Kingdom
Bacteriophage is implicated in virulence, clonal diversity, adaptation and evolution of Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus). It was known that wall teichoic acids (WTA) served as adsorption receptor for staphylococcal siphophage and WTA structure governs horizontal transfer of pathogenicity island among S. aureus clones. We recently isolated new staphylococcus phages named phiWS1-4. These novel phages have a typical structure of podophage having a spherical head with no tail which is belong to Podoviridae family. The host range infectivity…
