We demonstrated that we could combine LLB and phage to construct promising novel antimicrobial agents, LLB-phage. The first LLB-phage, lnqQ -T7 phage, can control the growth of both the Gram-negative host strain and neighboring Gram-positive bacteria while preventing the emergence of phage resistance in the host strain.

The genome sequence of Bacillus cereus strain HT18, isolated from forest soil, was 5,333,415 bp long. The genome included 5,825 putative coding sequences and 35.2% GC content; the strain had 5 plasmids. Average nucleotide identity based on BLAST+ (ANIb) and digital DNA-DNA hybridization (dDDH) results showed that HT18 was 98.78% and 90.70% homologous, respectively, to B. cereus ATCC 14579 T .