Handak, E., El- Safty, R., Mohamed, S., Abdelhamid, S., EL-aal, S., kamel, M. (2025). Isolation, visualization and characterization of four somatic coliphages from Egyptian sewage. Egyptian Journal of Botany, 65(1), 132-145. doi: 10.21608/ejbo.2024.284568.2818
Eman M. Handak; Rasha El- Safty; Sahar S. Mohamed; Sayeda A Abdelhamid; Shereen A. EL-aal; Marwa A. kamel. "Isolation, visualization and characterization of four somatic coliphages from Egyptian sewage". Egyptian Journal of Botany, 65, 1, 2025, 132-145. doi: 10.21608/ejbo.2024.284568.2818
Handak, E., El- Safty, R., Mohamed, S., Abdelhamid, S., EL-aal, S., kamel, M. (2025). 'Isolation, visualization and characterization of four somatic coliphages from Egyptian sewage', Egyptian Journal of Botany, 65(1), pp. 132-145. doi: 10.21608/ejbo.2024.284568.2818
Handak, E., El- Safty, R., Mohamed, S., Abdelhamid, S., EL-aal, S., kamel, M. Isolation, visualization and characterization of four somatic coliphages from Egyptian sewage. Egyptian Journal of Botany, 2025; 65(1): 132-145. doi: 10.21608/ejbo.2024.284568.2818
Isolation, visualization and characterization of four somatic coliphages from Egyptian sewage
1Botany and Microbiology Dept. -Faculty of science - Al-Azhar university (Girls Branch), Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, 11754.
2Botany add microbiology department-faculty of science- Al-Azhar university,(Girls Branch), Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, 11754.
3Microbial Biotechnology Department, Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Centre, Giza 12622, Egypt.
4Microbial Biotechnology Department, National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt, 12622
5Mathematics and Computer Science Dept., Fac. of Science, Al-Azhar University. (Girls Branch), Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, 11754.
6Water Pollution Research Dept., Environment and climate change Research institute, National Research Centre, P.O. 12622, Giza, Egypt.
Abstract
Somatic coliphages are bacteriophage that infect Escherichia coli and can be used in aquatic environment for risk assessment of viral and fecal pollution. The objective of this work was to isolate bacteriophages specific for E. coli strain (ATCC 13706), as well as characterization and evaluation of their stability. We used enrichment method to isolate phages against E. coli strain (ATCC 13706) from two wastewater treatment plants, and one opened drain. The isolated phages purified by successive single plaque isolation technique and results indicated isolation of 4 phages. The plaque sizes for isolated phages were between 1.0 and 4.0 mm in diameter with high titer ranged from 19 to 55 × 109 PFU/mL. Based on morphology, , all phages were found to be belonging to tailed-phages order, Caudovirales, and identified as members of the Myoviridae and Siphoviridae families. The characterization of these phages revealed high tolerance to temperature ranged from 5 to 75°C, and viability over wide pH values from 3 to 11. Some phages exhibit wide range of hosts, which could be polyvalent phage, while others were host specific. 1.0 was the optimum ratio of Multiplicity Of Infection (MOI) for these phages. In phage efficiency test, MOI of 1.0 resulted in 63.93, 61.20, 69.39 and 79.14% reduction in bacterial cell count with EcoP1, EcoP2, EcoP3 and EcoP4, respectively after 5hrs incubation at 37 °C. In one step growth curve, the latent period and burst size, of these phages were between 10 – 20 min and 44 – 62 PFU/cell, respectively.
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