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Essential Steps in Characterizing Bacteriophages: Biology, Taxonomy, and Genome Analysis

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Bacteriophages

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Because of the rise in antimicrobial resistance there has been a significant increase in interest in phages for therapeutic use. Furthermore, the cost of sequencing phage genomes has decreased to the point where it is being used as a teaching tool for genomics. Unfortunately, the quality of the descriptions of the phage and its annotation frequently are substandard. The following chapter is designed to help people working on phages, particularly those new to the field, to accurately describe their newly isolated viruses.

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  1. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Qasr El-Ainy, 11562, Cairo, Egypt

    Ramy Karam Aziz

  2. Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Infectiology, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada, G1X 4C6

    Hans-Wolfgang Ackermann

  3. The ithree Institute, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2007, Australia

    Nicola K. Petty

  4. Departments of Food Science, Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Pathobiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, N1G 2W1

    Andrew M. Kropinski

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Aziz, R.K., Ackermann, HW., Petty, N.K., Kropinski, A.M. (2018). Essential Steps in Characterizing Bacteriophages: Biology, Taxonomy, and Genome Analysis. In: Clokie, M., Kropinski, A., Lavigne, R. (eds) Bacteriophages. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1681. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7343-9_15

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