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  2. Isolation and Characterization of Gardnerella Phage vB_Gva_AB1, a Bacteriophage Infecting a Clinical Strain of Gardnerella vaginalis

Isolation and Characterization of Gardnerella Phage vB_Gva_AB1, a Bacteriophage Infecting a Clinical Strain of Gardnerella vaginalis

  • Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Mar 25;10(12):e00053-21. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00053-21.
Alexia Bordigoni 1 Sonia Bouchard 2 Christelle Desnues 3 2
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Affiliations

  • 1 Aix-Marseille Université, IRD 198, Assistance-Publique des Hôpitaux de Marseille, UMR Microbes, Evolution, Phylogeny and Infections (MEPHI), IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France.
  • 2 Aix-Marseille Université, Université de Toulon, CNRS, IRD, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, UM 110, Marseille, France.
  • 3 Aix-Marseille Université, IRD 198, Assistance-Publique des Hôpitaux de Marseille, UMR Microbes, Evolution, Phylogeny and Infections (MEPHI), IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France christelle.desnues@univ-amu.fr.
Abstract

Gardnerella vaginalis is the presumed causative agent of Bacterial vaginosis. Here, we describe the complete genome sequence of Gardnerella phage vB_Gva_AB1, induced from a vaginal Bacterial strain from a woman suffering with Bacterial vaginosis. The phage double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) genome is 50,268 bp long with a GC content of 39.55% and contains 62 predicted open reading frames.

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