• Concept

KlebPhaCol is a barrier-free open-source, expandable phage and strain collection available for your biological question of interest.

It consists of 53 Klebsiella spp. - targeting phages and 74 clinical strains of Klebsiella spp. along with their associated data (including sequences). Stocks are available for request. Learn more about the collection here.

You can also add your phages and strains to the collection, make your data immediately available, and get instant recognition via a DOI!

About the collection

Introducing KlebPhaCol: Advancing Phage Therapy

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If you use any information or data from this website, please remember to cite us.

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The

Collection

  • Phage Stocks

    All 53 phages are available upon request, for research purposes.

    26 Myophages - 23 Siphophages - 4 Podophages

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  • Bacterial Strains

    Most 74 clinical isolates of Klebsiella spp. used in this collection are available upon request, for research purposes.

    40 ST types - 32 KL types - 10 O-antigen

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  • Characterisation of Phages

    Phages have been sequenced, annotated and taxonomically assigned.

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  • Characterisation of Bacterial Strains

    Prophage identification as well as virulence, stress, antimicrobial resistance and defense genes for all 74 clinical isolates.

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  • Host Range

    All 53 Klebsiella spp. infecting phages were tested against the 74 clinical isolates of Klebsiella spp.

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  • Transmission Electron Microscopy

    All phages have been imaged by TEM.

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How can you contribute?

We need you.

KlebPhaCol is a community-based collaborative platform. This means that you can add your Klebsiella spp. phages and strains to the collection, make your data immediately available, and get instant recognition via a DOI!


Our mission at KlebPhaCol is to accelerate the progress of phage therapy (and beyond). Therefore, you can also request the collection for your research endeavors and share the data immediately (or later) on this platform to facilitate data centralisation.

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KlebPhaCol has been shipped to 21 labs around the world!

(last updated: October 2024)

The Team

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    Franklin Nobrega

    Principal investigator, University of Southampton, UK

  • Daniela Rothschild-Rodriguez

    PhD student, University of Southampton, UK

  • Kai Lambon

    Masters student, University of Southampton, UK

  • Michael Andrew

    Michael Andrew

    Medicine student, University of Southampton, UK

  • Morgen Hedges

    Undergraduate student, University of Southampton, UK

  • Simran Krishnakant Kushwaha

    PhD student, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, India & University of Southampton, UK

  • Claire King

    Research technician, University of Southampton, UK

  • Francesca Merrick

    Research technician, University of Southampton, UK

Microbial Interactions Lab

Additional contributors

Matthew Wand, UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)

Mark Sutton, UKHSA

Sophie Lawson, UKHSA

Pieter-Jan Haas, University Medical Centre Utrecht

Agnieszka Łątka, Ghent University

Ilaria De Angelis, Ghent University

Yves Briers, Ghent University

Yan-Jiun Lee, New England Biolabs (NEB)

Peter Weigele, NEB

Ana Rita Costa, Delft University of Technology

Stan J.J. Brouns, Delft University of Technology

Francis Drobniewski, Imperial College

Elizabeth Sheridan, University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

Kordo Saeed, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

This research was funded by