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Therapeutic treatment with bacteriophages offers some promise but faces many challenges including substantial variation in phage susceptibilities among clinical isolates, and the need to personalize therapies for individual patients. Many strains are not susceptible to any phages or are not efficiently killed by lytic phages, including all smooth colony morphotype strains tested to-date. Here, we analyze a set of new\n                    <jats:italic>M<\/jats:italic>\n                    .\n                    <jats:italic>abscessus<\/jats:italic>\n                    isolates for the genomic relationships, prophage content, spontaneous phage release, and phage susceptibilities. 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