Selection and Characterization of a Candidate Therapeutic Bacteriophage That Lyses the Escherichia coli O104:H4 Strain from the 2011 Outbreak in Germany

• Maia Merabishvili,

  Affiliations Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Technology, Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Brussels, Belgium, Eliava Institute of Bacteriophage, Microbiology and Virology, Tbilisi, Georgia, Laboratory of Bacteriology Research, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Daniel De Vos,

  Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Technology, Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Brussels, Belgium

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• Gilbert Verbeken,

  Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Technology, Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Brussels, Belgium

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• Andrew M. Kropinski,

  Affiliations Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ontario, Canada, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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• Dieter Vandenheuvel,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Gene Technology, KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium

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• Rob Lavigne,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Gene Technology, KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium

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• Pierre Wattiau,

  Affiliation Unit of Highly Pathogenic & Foodborne Zoonoses, Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre, Brussels, Belgium

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• Jan Mast,

  Affiliation Electron Microscopy Unit, Veterinary and Agrochemical 8 Research Centre, Brussels, Belgium

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• Catherine Ragimbeau,

  Affiliation Surveillance and Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, Laboratoire National de Santé, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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• Joel Mossong,

  Affiliation Surveillance and Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, Laboratoire National de Santé, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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• Jacques Scheres,

  Affiliations Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Nina Chanishvili,

  Affiliation Eliava Institute of Bacteriophage, Microbiology and Virology, Tbilisi, Georgia

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• Mario Vaneechoutte,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Bacteriology Research, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Jean-Paul Pirnay

  * E-mail: jean-paul.pirnay@mil.be

  Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Technology, Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Brussels, Belgium

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