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. 2023 Jun 20;12(6):e0016023.
doi: 10.1128/mra.00160-23. Epub 2023 May 3.

Genome Characterization of Enterococcus faecalis Bacteriophage EFKL

Loh Michelle JiaMin  1 , Prasanna Mutusamy  1 , Priyadarshini Karthikeyan  2 , Ramesh Kumaresan  2 , Andrew Millard  3 , Sivachandran Parimannan  1   4 , Heera Rajandas  1   4
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Genome Characterization of Enterococcus faecalis Bacteriophage EFKL

Loh Michelle JiaMin et al. Microbiol Resour Announc. .

Abstract

We characterized the complete genome of the lytic Enterococcus faecalis phage EFKL, which was isolated from a sewage treatment plant in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The phage, which was classified in the genus Saphexavirus, has a 58,343-bp double-stranded DNA genome containing 97 protein-encoding genes and shares 80.60% nucleotide similarity with Enterococcus phage EF653P5 and Enterococcus phage EF653P3.

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Phylogenetic analysis of Enterococcus phage EFKL. Core genomes were identified and aligned using Roary v3.13.0 with the –e and –n options. The core gene alignment output file from Roary was then used as the input to build the phylogenetic tree. The tree was constructed using the neighbor-joining method with 1,000 bootstrap replications and was visualized in MEGA X v10.2.6. All phages listed belonged to the genus Saphexavirus. The numbers next to the branches are bootstrap values.
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