April 2021 – PHAGElogist

Texas A&M AgriLife receives grant to support research on bacteriophage therapy

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIAID, part of the National Institutes of Health, NIH, has awarded $2.5 million in grants to support research on bacteriophage therapy, and…

Lots going in the phage therapy world

Read: Preclinical data and safety assessment of phage therapy in humans by Nale and Clokie, 2021. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0958166921000446 Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0958166921000446

Lensless imaging enables cost-effective phage-therapy diagnosis

The growing number of drug-resistant bacterial infections worldwide is driving renewed interest in phage therapy. The WHO has warned of “a slow tsunami” of antibiotic resistance that by 2050 could…

Global shortage of innovative antibiotics: WHO

The world is still failing to develop desperately needed antibacterial treatments, despite growing awareness of the urgent threat of antibiotic resistance, according to report by the World Health Organization. WHO reveals…

GOING ORGANIC CAN SLASH ANTIBIOTIC USE

Farms could significantly lower antibiotic use by adopting organic standards for animal welfare, new research has found. A survey, commissioned by the Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics (ASOS), found that…

Transmission of a carbapenem resistance plasmid in the gut microbiota

In a latest articles published in Nature Microbiology, the authors highlighted the transmission of carbapenem resistant plasmid in the gut microbiota. Article entitled "Pervasive transmission of a carbapenem resistance plasmid…

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