TABLE 2.

Characteristics of different bacteriophages analyzed in the study

Phage designation	Indicator strain used for isolation	Morphologya	Family	Restriction profileb	DNA homologyc
JSF9	V. cholerae O1 classical biotype strain S224	Hexagonal head (50 nm), short tail (5 nm)	Podoviridae	1	JSF12, JSF15
JSF10	V. cholerae O139 strain Arg-03	Hexagonal head (45 nm), long tail (100 nm)	Siphoviridae	2	None
JSF12	V. cholerae O1 EC13352 (C6706; cyaA::TnFGL3)	Hexagonal head (50 nm), short tail (5 nm)	Podoviridae	3	JSF9, JSF15
JSF15	V. cholerae O1 EC13352 (C6706; cyaA::TnFGL3)	Hexagonal head (50 nm), short tail (5 nm)	Podoviridae	4	JSF9, JSF12

^aMorphology is shown in Fig. 1.

^bBglI restriction patterns are shown in Fig. 2.

^cDNA homologies were determined by cross-hybridization between the different phage genomes on Southern blots.