Assessment of bacteriophage activity against local strains of Enterococcus and Pseudomonas in Romania
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Methods In this study we used a bacteriophage testing kit containing 4 types of Georgian products: PYO, INTESTI (Eliava BioPreparations, Tbilisi) and PHAGYO, PHAGESTI (JSC “Biochimpharm”, Tbilisi) to test the strains of Pseudomonas spp. and Enterococcus spp. isolated and stored from patients treated in the Adults II ward of the National Institute for Infectious Diseases “Prof. Dr. Matei Balş”, Romania during April 2013 – July 2014.
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