Journal of Animal Research

  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 1

Isolation of bacteriophages against Salmonella Enteritidis and their partial characterization

  • Author:
  • Laddika Lahari, Satish S Chougule, Sunita Thakur, Deepti Narang, Mudit Chandra
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 47 to 51

Department of Veterinary Microbiology, College of Veterinary Science, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana-141004, Punjab, India

*Corresponding Author: Mudit Chandra; Email: drmuditchandra@rediffmail.com

Online published on 2 July, 2013.

Abstract

Salmonellosis is a very important disease affecting both humans and animals. With the onset of drug resistance in Salmonella, use of phages for therapy seems to be an alternative approach in combating this problem. In the present study, sixteen phages against Salmonella Enteritidis were isolated from a total of 84 dairy and poultry sewage samples and upon characterization of phages at fixed pH 7 and different temperatures, it was found that the phages could survive at varied temperature conditions and were also sustaining at pH 7.

Keywords

Salmonella, bacteriophage, temperature sensitivity, pH