Gerovac, Milan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6929-7178
Buhlmann, Leandro https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1943-2813
Zhu, Yan
Ðurica-Mitić, Svetlana
Rech, Valentin https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8417-291X
Carien, Samuel https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4135-090X
Gräfenhan, Tom
Popella, Linda https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5309-5838
Vogel, Jörg https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2220-1404
Article History
Received: 10 September 2024
Accepted: 6 August 2025
First Online: 10 September 2025
Competing interests
: The HZI filed a patent application (EP24191874.7) on which J.V., M.G., and S.Ð.-M. are inventors, covering the method for targeting and mapping of essential phage genes. The other authors declare no competing interests.