On the interactions between virulent bacteriophages and bacteria in the gut.

Damien Maura (1, 2, 3) , Laurent Debarbieux (4)

1 Massachusetts General Hospital [Boston]
2 Shriners Hospitals for Children [Boston]
3 HMS - Harvard Medical School [Boston]
4 BMGE - Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles

We recently described the targeting of O104:H4 Escherichia coli in mouse gut by several virulent bacteriophages, highlighting several issues relating to virus-host interactions, which we discuss further in this addendum to the original publication.

Keywords: bacteriophage infection; gut; permissivity; phage therapy; pseudolysogeny

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Microbiology and Parasitology; Bacteriology

Damien Maura, Laurent Debarbieux. On the interactions between virulent bacteriophages and bacteria in the gut.. Bacteriophage, 2012, 2 (4), pp.e23557. ⟨10.4161/bact.23557⟩. ⟨pasteur-01539087⟩