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Phage therapy is the use of bacteriophages to treat bacterial infections. Bacteriophage treatment offers a possible alternative to conventional antibiotic treatments for bacterial infection. [55] It is conceivable that, although bacteria can develop resistance to phages, the resistance might be easier to overcome than resistance to antibiotics.
In July 2007, the same bacteriophage were approved for use on all food products. [37] In 2011 USDA confirmed that LISTEX is a clean label processing aid and is included in USDA. [38] Research in the field of food safety is continuing to see if lytic phages are a viable option to control other food-borne pathogens in various food products. [39]
The center was founded by Steffanie A. Strathdee and Robert "Chip" Schooley, both professors at UC San Diego School of Medicine. The center currently treats patients with life-threatening multi-drug resistant infections with phage therapy, on a case-by-case basis, through the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) compassionate
Several laboratories have been testing suitability of bacteriophage isolates to control certain bacterial pathogens. Significant advancements in this research have been made at the Bacteriophage Institute in Tbilisi, Georgia, where phage therapy is routinely applied in medicine research. Today treatment of antibiotic resistant bacteria is a ...
Research Styles in Virus Studies in the Twentieth Century: Controversies and the Formation of Consensus. Doctoral Thesis, University of Limburg. (note that though this is a thesis, it is of sufficient general interest toward addressing issues in the history of bacteriophagy as to warrant inclusion in this list)
Like the two-hybrid system, phage display is used for the high-throughput screening of protein interactions.In the case of M13 filamentous phage display, the DNA encoding the protein or peptide of interest is ligated into the pIII or pVIII gene, encoding either the minor or major coat protein, respectively.
Applications in Research and Medicine. Corynephages are of significant interest in the fields of microbiology and biotechnology. Their specificity to Corynebacterium species makes them valuable tools in the study of these bacteria, including pathogenic strains like Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Phages are used to understand bacterial genetics ...
A bacteriophage, or phage for short, is a virus that can infect bacteria and archaea, and can replicate inside of them. Phages make up the majority of most viromes and are currently understood as being the most abundant organism. [5] Oftentimes scientists will look only at a phageome instead of a virome while conducting research.