TABLE 5.
Antibacterial activities of the TT01α and VAR* variants against a panel of microorganisms
| Strain | Inhibition zone diam (mm)a |
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| Gram-positive bacteria |
Gram-negative bacteria |
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| M. luteus | C. xerosis | S. epidermidis | S. aureus | E. coli | P. vulgaris | P. aeruginosa | O. intermedium | O. anthropi | E. amylovora | Pseudomonas sp. | S. enterica | Y. enterocolitica | |
| TT01α | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 2 |
| VAR* | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Antibacterial activities are expressed as the diameter of inhibition zones observed in petri plate bioassays. The full strain designations were as follows: Micrococcus luteus CIP6821, Corynebacterium xerosis, Staphylococcus epidermidis CIP6821, Staphylococcus aureus CIP7625, Escherichia coli CIP7624, Proteus vulgaris CIP5860, Pseudomonas aeruginosa CIP76.110, Ochrobactrum intermedium LMG3301T, Ochrobactrum anthropi ATCC 49188T, Erwinia amylovora CFBP1430, Pseudomonas sp. strain BW11M, Salmonella enterica 14028s, and Yersinia enterocolitica serotype O8.