Isolation and characterization of lytic bacteriophages from various sources in Addis Ababa against antimicrobial-resistant diarrheagenic Escherichia coli strains and evaluation of their therapeutic potential

Table 8 The multiplicity of infection in phages isolates

E. coli strain (CFU/500 ul)		MOI	Phage isolates titer (PFU/ml) after infection
E. coli strain (CFU/500 ul)		MOI	EP-M-A	EP-B-K	EH-SD-TH	ET-SD-TH	EH-B-A (A1)	EH-B-A, (A2)	EI-SP-GF
EPEC	1.8 x 10¹⁰	10	1.3 x 10⁸	2.7 x 10⁸	5.7 x 10⁷	6.1 x 10⁵	2.7 x 10⁷	8.4 x 10⁸	9.1 x 10⁵
ETEC	3.4 x 10⁸	1	2 x 10¹⁰	3.9 x 10⁷	3.9 x 10⁷	1.6 x 10⁷	3.3 x 10⁷	12.0 x 10⁹	8.6 x 10⁷
EHEC	8.4 x 10⁸	0.1	1.2 x 10⁹	1.7 x 10⁹	1.5 x 10⁶	2.8 x 10⁷	2.4 x 10⁶	2.6 x 10⁸	9.0 x 10⁷
EIEC	5.2 x 10⁷	0.01	3.7 x 10⁸	1.5 x 10⁸	7.5 x 10⁷	2.7 x 10⁷	5.1x 10⁷	7.3 x 10⁹	7.7 x 10⁷
EAEC	3.4 x 10⁵	0.001	7.2 x 10⁵	1.7 x 10⁸	8.1 x 10⁵	3.9 x 10⁶	7.1 x 10⁵	5.4 x 10⁸	8.3 x 10⁷
STEC	1.2 x 10⁶	0.0001	6.7 x 10⁷	3.5 x 10⁶	4.3 x 10⁷	1.4 x 10⁶	4.6 x 10⁷	6.2 x 10⁷	9.4 x 10⁶

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