A Novel N4-Like Bacteriophage Isolated from a Wastewater Source in South India with Activity against Several Multidrug-Resistant Clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates
Nitasha D. Menon,
Megha S. Kumar,
T. G. Satheesh Babu,
Sucharita Bose,
Gayathri Vijayakumar,
Manasi Baswe,
Meghna Chatterjee,
Jovita Rowena D’Silva,
Kavya Shetty,
Jayalekshmi Haripriyan,
Anil Kumar,
Samitha Nair,
Priyanka Somanath,
Bipin G. Nair,
Victor Nizet,
Geetha B. Kumar
Affiliations
Nitasha D. Menon
School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, Kerala, India
Megha S. Kumar
Amrita Biosensor Research Lab, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
T. G. Satheesh Babu
Amrita Biosensor Research Lab, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
Sucharita Bose
Icon Analytical Private Limited, Worli, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Gayathri Vijayakumar
School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, Kerala, India
Manasi Baswe
School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, Kerala, India
Meghna Chatterjee
School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, Kerala, India
Jovita Rowena D’Silva
School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, Kerala, India
Kavya Shetty
School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, Kerala, India
Jayalekshmi Haripriyan
School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, Kerala, India
Anil Kumar
Department of Microbiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, Kerala, India
Samitha Nair
Department of Microbiology, DDRC SRL Diagnostic Private Limited, Trivandrum, Kerala, India
Priyanka Somanath
School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, Kerala, India
Bipin G. Nair
School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, Kerala, India
Victor Nizet
Department of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
In India, multidrug resistance determinants are much more abundant in community-associated bacterial pathogens due to the improper treatment of domestic and industrial effluents. In particular, a high bacterial load of the opportunistic pathogen P. aeruginosa
