Phage isolation targeting UPEC strains
Two phages were isolated from the river Rhein in Basel, Switzerland. The phages are selectively infecting the two uropathogenic E. coli strains CFT073 and UTI89. These phages infect well in urine as well as in urine during flow in a bladder-microtissue model (see preprint DOI: 10.1101/2025.11.12.687885). Phages were sequenced with the Illumina technology and annotated with Pharokka.