Experimental protection of mice against lethal Staphylococcus aureus infection by novel bacteriophage phi MR11.

S, Matsuzaki; M, Yasuda; H, Nishikawa; M, Kuroda; T, Ujihara; T, Shuin; Y, Shen; Z, Jin; S, Fujimoto; MD, Nasimuzzaman; H, Wakiguchi; S, Sugihara; T, Sugiura; S, Koda; A, Muraoka; S, Imai

doi:10.1086/374001

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Experimental protection of mice against lethal Staphylococcus aureus infection by novel bacteriophage phi MR11.

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Matsuzaki S

Yasuda M

Nishikawa H

Abstract

The protective effects of bacteriophages were assessed against experimental Staphylococcus aureus infection in mice. Of the S. aureus phages isolated in the study, phi MR11 was representatively used for all testing, because its host range was the most broad and it carries no genes for known toxins o...

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