The bacterial strains used in this study are listed in Supplementary Table S1. P. aeruginosa strain PaTun is a clinical isolate obtained from the Hospital Hedi Shaker in Sfax, Tunisia, and was used as a host strain for phage isolation. A collection of 140 clinical and environmental P. aeruginosa isolates from the collection of the Queen Astrid Military Hospital (Brussels, Belgium) [30 (link)] was also used (Supplementary Table S1). All strains were grown in Lysogeny Broth (LB, Becton Dickinson, Erembodegem, Belgium) medium at 37 °C aerobically.
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