Table 1.

Host range of phage pVa-21 against all bacterial strains used in this study.

Bacterial species	Strain	EOPa	Source
V. alginolyticus	rm-8402	1.00	Takaoka et al.2
	V374	0	Nishibuchi et al.58
	V447	0.76 ± 0.09	Sawabe et al.59
	am-10	0.15 ± 0.12	Seoul National University Aquatic Biomedicine Laboratory Culture collection
	SNUFPC 080402	0	″
V. harveyi	SFC-BS	0.70 ± 0.03	″
	PG-9302	0	″
	PG-9303	0	″
	O-3	0	Ishimaru and Muroga60
	O-6	0	Ishimaru and Muroga60
V. parahaemolyticus	CRS 09–17	0	Jun et al.61
V. anguillarum	HT7601	0	Nishibuchi et al.58
V. campbellii	HUFP 9109	0	Hiroshima University Fish Pathology Laboratory Culture Collection
V. vulnificus	HM1-1	0	Nishibuchi et al.58

^aEOP value is represented as the means ± standard deviation of triplicate replicates.

EOP; efficiency of plating.