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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 1999, p. 1772-1776, Vol. 65, No. 4
0099-2240/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Diversity of Bacteroides fragilis Strains in Their Capacity To Recover Phages from Human and Animal Wastes and from Fecally Polluted Wastewater

Anna Puig, Nuria Queralt, Juan Jofre, and Rosa Araujo*

Departament de Microbiologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 08028, Spain

Received 31 July 1998/Accepted 21 January 1999

Great differences in capability to detect bacteriophages from urban sewage of the area of Barcelona existed among 115 strains of Bacteroides fragilis. The capability of six of the strains to detect phages in a variety of feces and wastewater was studied. Strains HSP40 and RYC4023 detected similar numbers of phages in urban sewage and did not detect phages in animal feces. The other four strains detected phages in the feces of different animal species and in wastewater of both human and animal origin. Strain RYC2056 recovered consistently higher counts than the other strains and also detected counts ranging from 101 to approximately 103 phages per ml in urban sewage from different geographical areas. This strain detected bacteriophages in animal feces even though their relative concentration with respect to the other fecal indicators was significantly lower in wastewater polluted with animal feces than in urban sewage.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Departament de Microbiologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal 645, Barcelona 08028, Spain. Phone: 34 93 4021491. Fax: 34 93 4110592. E-mail: araujo{at}porthos.bio.ub.es.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 1999, p. 1772-1776, Vol. 65, No. 4
0099-2240/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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