Phab24 was isolated from river water in Zhejiang Province, China, and exhibits lytic activity against clinical isolates of the nosocomial pathogen
Acinetobacter baumannii
(X. Wang, B. Loh, Y. Yu, X. Hua, S. Leptihn, bioRxiv, 2021,
https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.23.453473
). The bacteriophage belongs to the
Myoviridae
family and has a double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) genome sequence that is 93,604 bp long, containing 172 open reading frames (ORFs).