Lytic Bacteroides uniformis bacteriophages exhibiting host tropism congruent with diversity generating retroelement

Intestinal phages are abundant and important component of gut microbiota, but our knowledge remains limited to only a few isolated and characterized representatives targeting numerically dominant gut bacteria. Here we describe isolation of human intestinal phages infecting Bacteroides uniformis. Bacteroides is one of the most common bacterial groups in the global human gut microbiota, however, to…

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