Table 1.
Studies about bacteriophage research in West Africa.
| N° | Countries | Years | Samples | Bacteria Host for Phage | Title of the study | Phage Family | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Benin | 2023 | Hospital wastewater | Acinetobacter baumannii | Isolation and characterization of three novel Acinetobacter baumannii phages from Beninese hospital wastewater | Autographiviridae | [18] |
| 2. | 2022 | Sewage and surface water | Bacillus spp., Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, and Xanthomonas sp. | Nigerian phages: The first bacteriophages from Tropical Africa | Myoviridae, Siphoviridae or Podoviridae | [19] | |
| 3. | Effluent water | Escherichia coli O157:H7 | Identification of Escherichia coli O157:H7, Characterization, and Host Range Analysis of Bacteriophages Infecting Some Selected Pathogenic Bacteria from Jos, Nigeria | - | [20] | ||
| 4. | 2023 | Poultry | ESBL-E. coli | Antibiotic resistance genes, mobile elements, virulence genes, and phages in cultivated ESBL-producing Escherichia coli of poultry origin in Kwara State, North Central Nigeria | Myoviridae Siphoviridae Inoviridae and Podoviridae | [21] | |
| 5. | 2022 | Wastewater | Pseudomonas aeruginosa | Isolation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Phages from Wastewaters | - | [22] | |
| 6. | 2022 | Wastewater | Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O157:H7 | Isolation of Escherichia coli phages from wastewater | - | [23] | |
| 7. | Ivory Coast | 2021 | Wastewater |
E. coli, Enterobacter cloacae |
Investigation of phages infecting E. coli and Enterobacter cloacae in sewage | - | [12] |
| 8. | 2017 | Water and fishes | P. aeruginosa, Enterobacter aerogenes, K. pneumoniae, and E. coli | New identification of phages and their application for multidrug strains in Abidjan | - | [24] | |
| 9. | 2020 | Water | P. aeruginosa | Biocontrol of multidrug-resistant P. aeruginosa infection by phages in aquaculture | - | [25] | |
| 10. | 2020 | Rodent intestines | E. coli | First novel phages from rodents with lytic activity on clinical Enterobacterales strains | Myoviridae | [26] | |
| 11. | 2023 | Lake water | E. coli, P. aeruginosa, and E. cloacae | Multiple adaptations of bacteriophages in Lagoon Ebrie: Indicators of permanence microbiological pollution in the environment, Ivory Coast, West Africa | - | [24] | |
| 12. | Ghana | 2020 | Irrigation ponds and streams | Shiga toxin-producing E. coli | Application of phage cocktail for control of shiga toxin-producing E. coli in foods and food contact surfaces | - | [15] |
| 13. | Senegal | 2024 | Sewage water | Klebsiella pneumoniae | Complete genome sequences of two Klebsiella pneumoniae phages from Dakar | - | [27] |