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. 2012 Jan 11;2:282. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00282

Table 3.

Efficiency of photocatalytic inactivation of dairy bacteriophages (data adapted from Briggiler Marcó et al., 2011).

Phage Phage classificationa Sensitive strainb ηabs (PFU/photon)
CNRZ 832-B1 Myoviridae Lactobacillus helveticus CNRZ 892 1.161 × 10−12
CNRZ 0241 0.812 × 10−12
ATCC 15807-B1 Lb. helveticus ATCC 15807 0.212 × 10−12
ATCC 8014-B1 Siphoviridae Lactobacillus plantarum ATCC 8014 2.125 × 10−11
ATCC 8014-B2 4.244 × 10−11
FAGK1 1.050 × 10−11
FAGK2 3.437 × 10−12
Cb1/204 Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis 204 0.257 × 10−12
Cb1/342 Lb. delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus 342 0.171 × 10−12
CHD Lactococcus lactis Cl2 1.135 × 10−12
QF9 0.330 × 10−12
OBJ Streptococcus thermophilus JB15 0.362 × 10−12
MLC-A Lactobacillus paracasei A 0.709 × 10−12
J-1 Lactobacillus casei ATCC 27139 2.273 × 10−12

aClassification of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) as illustrated by Ackermann (2007).

bCNRZ, Centre National de la Recherche Zootechnique. ATCC, American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, VA, USA.

ηabs, photocatalytic inactivation efficiency. PFU, plaque forming units.