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Foodborne Viruses and Somatic Coliphages Occurrence in Fresh Produce at Retail from Northern Mexico
Foodborne disease outbreaks linked to consumption of vegetables have been often attributed to human enteric viruses, such as Norovirus (NoV),...
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Coliphages as Indicators for the Microbial Quality of Treated Wastewater Effluents
Wastewater effluents are a reliable water source for non-potable water reuse including unrestricted crop irrigation in arid regions suffering from...
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Evaluation of New Components in Modified Scholten’s Medium for the Detection of Somatic Coliphages
Enteric bacteriophages (somatic coliphages, F-specific coliphages or both together) are now recognized as useful viral indicators in water,...
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Decay of infectious adenovirus and coliphages in freshwater habitats is differentially affected by ambient sunlight and the presence of indigenous protozoa communities
BackgroundSanitary quality of recreational waters worldwide is assessed using fecal indicator bacteria (FIB), such as Escherichia coli and...
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Immunostimulatory Activities of Coliphages on In Vitro Activated Mammalian Macrophages
Bacteriophages present alternatives to antibiotics. In the age of superbugs and antibiotic resistance, the field of medicine is trying to create new...
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Bioaccumulation Dynamic by Crassostrea gigas Oysters of Viruses That Are Proposed as Surrogates for Enteric Virus Contamination in Environmental Samples
Oysters are filter-feeders and retain sewage-derived pathogens in their organs or tissues. Since most enteric viruses involved in outbreaks cannot...
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Male-Specific and Somatic Coliphage Profiles from Major Aquaculture Areas in Republic of Korea
Human and animal feces are important sources of various types of microbial contamination in water. Especially, enteric viruses, the major agents of...
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A Primer on Phage-Bacterium Antagonistic Coevolution
The primary emphasis of this monograph has been on how one population, particularly of a given phage type, can drive the evolution of a...
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Transduction of Large Amounts of DNA
Generalized transduction allows phages to move phage genome-sized segments of DNA between bacteria. Not all phages are able to so-transduce bacterial...
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Environmental Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Wastewater and Groundwater in Quintana Roo, Mexico
The presence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA in wastewater has been reported as a result of fecal shedding of...
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Characterization of bacteriophages infecting multidrug-resistant uropathogenic Escherichia coli strains
Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) is the most common causative agent of urinary tract infections, and strains that are resistant to antibiotics...
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Brief Introduction to Phage Ecology
Ecology is the study of the interaction of organisms with the abiotic and biotic components of their environments. The importance of understanding...
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Pleiotropic Costs of Phage Resistance
With pleiotropies, a single gene is responsible for more than one phenotype. As a consequence, different alleles of a single gene can differ...
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Bacteriophage Taxonomy: A Continually Evolving Discipline
While taxonomy is an often underappreciated branch of science, it serves very important roles. Bacteriophage taxonomy has evolved from a discipline...
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Muramidase, nuclease, or hypothetical protein genes intervene between paired genes encoding DNA packaging terminase and portal proteins in Wolbachia phages and prophages
Genomes of the obligate intracellular alpha proteobacterium Wolbachia pipientis often encode prophage-like regions, and in a few cases, purified...
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Evaluation of a Male-Specific DNA Coliphage Persistence Within Eastern Oysters (Crassostrea virginica)
Male-specific coliphages (MSCs) are currently used to assess the virologic quality of shellfish-growing waters and to assess the impact of sewage...
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Infectious Pepper Mild Mottle Virus and Human Adenoviruses as Viral Indices in Sewage and Water Samples
The objective of this study was to compare human adenoviruses (HAdVs) genome and infectivity, polyomaviruses (JC and BK) genome (JCPyVs) and...
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Pepper Mild Mottle Virus as Indicator of Pollution: Assessment of Prevalence and Concentration in Different Water Environments in Italy
Pepper mild mottle virus (PMMoV), a plant pathogenic virus belonging to the family Virgoviridae, has been proposed as a potential viral indicator for...
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Microbial Indicators of Fecal Pollution: Recent Progress and Challenges in Assessing Water Quality
Purpose of ReviewFecal contamination of water is a major public health concern. This review summarizes recent developments and advancements in water...
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Bacterial Mutation Associated with Phages: Insertions
One means by which phages can drive the evolution of bacteria is by the disruption of bacterial genes, as can occur in the course of prophage...