Jan 04, 2026
Extensive cultivation of human gut phages revealing undescribed Bacteroidaceae phages | Prof. Ye Xiang
The isolated and characterized gut phages remain rare. Most of the gut phages that have been isolated and propagated thus far are lytic phages, leaving significant gaps in the study of gut temperate phages. In this study, we successfully isolated a large-scale collection of gut bacteria and phages, containing 1,679 bacterial strains from 86 species and 79 phages that infect bacteria from 26 different species. Among the phage isolates, 32 are temperate phages and two of these temperate phages ...
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