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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 02, 2016
Altria Client Services Llc, Richmond, VA (US);
Micreos Bv, Wageningen, NL;
Dongmei Xu, Glen Allen, VA (US);
Elisabeth Miller, Chesterfield, VA (US);
James Arthur Strickland, Richmond, VA (US);
Ujwala Warek, Chester, VA (US);
Steven Hagens, Bennekom, NL;
Altria Client Services LLC, Richmond, VA (US);
Micreos BV, Wageningen, NL;
Abstract
Bacteriophage are provided, and methods of making and using the bacteriophage also are provided. The bacteriophage can be provided in a tobacco product, where the bacteriophage reduces the number of viable bacteria in the tobacco product and includes a nucleic acid sequence encoding an endolysin having at least 95% sequence identity to the nucleic acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 or to the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2.