Background
Prevention and control of Salmonella biofilm have great importance for economic point and medical. Phages and their derivatives are ideal candidates for replacing or compensating of antibiotic problems in the future.
Results
In this study, the phage KM16 was isolated from slaughterhouse sump samples. It belonged to the Myoviridae family and optimal growth temperature was 42 ℃, the pH of optimal preservation buffer was 6 ~ 7, optimal multiplicity of infection (MOI) was 0.0001 and the genome size was 170,126 bp. The phage KM16 has the ability to lytic most clinical strains of Salmonella paratyphi A and Salmonella paratyphi B. Phylogenetic analysis found that the 16S rRNA, crispr 1 and fimA genes of Salmonella paratyphi have a high similarity and correlation with lytic spectrum of phage KM16, but not correlated with the genes of invA, isrK and luxS. Above all, the lytic spectrum of phage KM16 correlation with tertiary structure of Salmonella pili, the pili of Salmonella was the recognition site for phage adsorption. Collaboration of phage KM16 and antibiotics have better anti-biofilm effect than alone of phage or antibiotics in low concentration of bacteria culture and phage have better anti-biofilm effect than antibiotics in a high concentration of bacteria culture.
Conclusions
The data of this study provided a new perspective to understand the relationship between phage lytic spectrum and difference of host strains.