The present invention relates to a Myoviridae bacteriophage Lac-GAP-1 that is isolated from the nature and can kill specifically Lactococcus garvieae cells, which has a genome represented by the nucleotide sequence of SEQ. ID. NO: 1 (Accession NO: KCTC 12686BP), and a method for preventing and treating the infections of Lactococcus garvieae using the composition comprising said bacteriophage as an active ingredient.

The present invention relates to bacteriophage therapy. More particularly, the present invention relates to novel bacteriophages having a high specificity against Staphylococcus aureus strains, their manufacture, components thereof, compositions comprising the same and the uses thereof in phage therapy and as companion diagnostic.

An encapsulated bacteriophage formulation and a method for encapsulating bacteriophages and bacteriophage-related products in polymeric microcapsules is provided. Some embodiments of the method of producing the encapsulated bacteriophages involves a water-in-oil-in-water double emulsion.

Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for modifying a bacterial population. In some embodiments, described herein is a bacteriophage comprising a first nucleic acid sequence encoding a first spacer sequence or a crRNA transcribed therefrom, wherein the first spacer sequence is complementary to a target nucleotide sequence from a target gene in a target bacterium, provided that the bacteriophage is rendered lytic.

Disclosed here are phage compositions comprising CRISPR-Cas systems and methods of use thereof. In certain embodiments, disclosed herein is a bacteriophage comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding a Type I CRISPR-Cas system comprising: (a) a CRISPR array; (b) a Cascade polypeptide; and (c) a Cas3 polypeptide. In some embodiments, the CRISPR array comprises a spacer sequence and at least one repeat sequence. In some embodiments, the at least one repeat sequence is operably linked to the spacer sequence at either its 5′ end or its 3′ end.

A composition for preventing or treating an infection or disease caused by a pathogenic Escherichia coli includes a Myoviridae bacteriophage having an ability to lyse the pathogenic Escherichia coli and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. A method for preventing or treating an infection or disease caused by a pathogenic Escherichia coli includes administering to a subject a Myoviridae bacteriophage and lysing the pathogenic Escherichia coli by the Myoviridae bacteriophage.

Provided herein are methods and compositions for killing a target bacterium. Also disclosed are engineered bacteriophages.

The invention relates to methods, uses, systems, arrays, engineered nucleotide sequences and vectors for inhibiting bacterial population growth or for altering the relative ratio of sub-populations of first and second bacteria in a mixed population of bacteria. The invention is particularly useful, for example, for treatment of microbes such as for environmental, medical, food and beverage use. The invention relates inter alia to methods of controlling microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) or biofouling of a substrate or fluid in an industrial or domestic system.

The present disclosure relates to bacteriophages and compositions capable of infecting and killing Staphylococcus, and use of the same for treating Staphylococcus, e.g. Staphylococcus aureus, bacterial infections.

Disclosed is preparation of a cocktail as a therapeutic agent for cow mastitis and use thereof. A compatibility of phages against the main pathogenic bacteria of cow mastitis is utilized in combination with a specific preparation method to prepare and obtain a therapeutic cocktail preparation. The therapeutic phage cocktail preparation for cow mastitis provided in the disclosure is easy to prepare, short in course of treatment and quick in effect. It has better therapeutic effect on both clinical cow mastitis and recessive mastitis than that of antibiotics and antimicrobial peptide and is expected to solve the problem of bacterial resistance in the treatment of cow mastitis, thereby reducing or getting rid of the troubles of diseases such as mastitis in cows, which is of potential development value in cow farming.