Isolation of 40 bacteriophages from human skin infecting coagulase-negative Staphylococcus. Staphylococcus phage sp.

Staphylococcus species are among the most abundant colonisers of skin and are associated with both health and disease yet the bacteriophages infecting the most abundant species on skin are less well studied. Here, we report the isolation and genome sequencing of 40 bacteriophages from human skin swabs that infect coagulase-negative Staphylococcus (CoNS) species that extends our knowledge of diversity to define their contribution to skin microbiome