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Paper: Type I CRISPR-Cas provides robust immunity but incomplete attenuation of phage-induced cellular stress.

Paper: Digital phagograms: predicting phage infectivity through a multilayer machine learning approach. See Dimi Boeckaerts’ Twitter thread for key points.

Paper: Isolation and characterization of novel lytic phages to combat multidrug-resistant E. coli and Salmonella spp. — Contributed by Ivy Mutai (Phage Team Kenya and Uganda)

Paper: The genetic basis of phage susceptibility, cross-resistance and host-range in Salmonella.

Paper: Genomic analysis of prophages from Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates.

Paper: Spontaneous phage resistance in avian pathogenic Escherichia coli.

Paper: Multi-species host range of staphylococcal phages isolated from wastewater

Paper: Anti-biofilm activity of phages against clinical Staphylococcus aureus isolates from patients with LVAD infection

Paper: Polymer-mediated cryopreservation of phages

Preprint: Phage resistance accompanies reduced fitness of uropathogenic E. coli in the urinary environment

Paper: Classification of in vitro phage–host population growth dynamics

Viral egress via secretin pores in the bacterial host cell membrane reduces cell damage

Phage-encoded sigma factors alter bacterial dormancy

New ecological and genetic insights from studying viral communities of hot spring phototrophic microbial mats

Systematic exploration of E. coli phage–host interactions with the BASEL phage collection.

Selection for phage resistance reduces virulence of Shigella flexneri.

A temperate phage model system reveals new strains, species, prophage integration loci, conserved proteins and lysogeny management components.

Erica Birkholz (University of California, San Diego) and colleagues published a new paper in bioRxiv showing a cytoskeletal vortex drives phage nucleus rotation during jumbo phage replication in E. coli.

Fatima Aysha Hussain (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts) and colleagues published a new paper in Science showing rapid evolutionary turnover of mobile genetic elements drives bacterial resistance to phages.

Lore Van Espen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) and colleagues published a new paper in mSystems showing a previously undescribed highly prevalent phage identified in a Danish enteric virome catalog