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Research in Microbiology xx (2014) 1e7 www.elsevier.com/locate/resmic

Original article

Characterization of Staphylococcus epidermidis phage vB_SepS_SEP9 e A unique member of the Siphoviridae family Q3

Luís D.R. Melo a, Sanna Sillankorva a, Hans-Wolfgang Ackermann b, Andrew M. Kropinski c,d, Joana Azeredo a, Nuno Cerca a,* b

a CEB-Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar 4710-057 Braga, Portugal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectiology, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Qu
ebec, QC G1X 4C6, Canada c Public Health Agency of Canada, Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses, Guelph, ON N1G 3W4, Canada d Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada

Received 2 April 2014; accepted 29 September 2014

Abstract Relatively few phages (