Isolation of a Novel Lytic Bacteriophage against a Nosocomial Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Belonging to ST45

Table 1

Host range of the R4 phage. Bold and italic fonts indicate the full and partial lysis of the strain by R4, respectively. Host strain of phage R4 is marked with an asterisk.

Species	Strain code/origin	Sequence type	R4 phage effect
HA-MRSA	06-01388	ST247	No lysis
	93-01000	ST254	Full lysis
	06-01597	ST239	No lysis
	06-02182	ST22	No lysis
	06-01019	ST45	Full lysis
	06-01750	ST228	No lysis
	06-00219	ST5	No lysis
	06-00409	ST225	No lysis
CA-MRSA	03-02773	ST1	Full lysis
	06-00631	ST5	Partial lysis
	06-00373	ST8	Partial lysis
	05-01089	ST22	Partial lysis
	06-02000	ST80	No lysis
	06-00467	ST152	No lysis
MRSA	South Transdanubian Regional Public Health Institute, Hungary (19 strains)		Full lysis (8 strains)
			No lysis (11 strains)
	N4315		No lysis
	MW2		No lysis
	MU3		No lysis
	MU50		No lysis
	S30		No lysis
	CI6005		No lysis
	Ci5734		No lysis
	116539		No lysis
	116550		No lysis
S. aureus	OEK 112016		No lysis
	OEK 112017		No lysis
	ATCC 29213		No lysis