Staphylococcus phage ESa2 isolate:ESa2 Genome sequencing and assembly
Bacteriophage ESa2 was isolated from isolated from the Rock Creek in Montgomery County, Maryland, USA using a methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus strain MRSN8383 for phage enrichment. ESa2 was able to lyse ~40% of diverse clinical isolates of S. aureus from military patients, 102 of which were MRSA (methicillin-resistant S. aureus), but had higher lytic activity than a previously isolated broad-host range phage ESa1 (PRJNA632562).