Uncategorized Phage Therapy in Korea 22 Dec 20234 Jan 2024 New publication from Lee et al. on "Phage therapy in Korea" Abstract Background Concerns about the rise in antimicrobial resistance have led to renewed interest in phage therapy worldwide, but…
Uncategorized Phage Therapy in Patients With Cystic Fibrosis 20 Dec 202320 Dec 2023 Eastern Bloc countries and the Soviet Union use bacteriophage (phage) therapy for bacterial infections. In the United States, phage is only available in compassionate use scenarios, so there is a…
Uncategorized RNA phage genome entry 18 Dec 202318 Dec 2023 An interesting article "An outermembrane determinant for RNA phage genome entry in Pseudomonas aeruginosa" by Bae et al., in iScience. Read here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.108675 SUMMARY: Host range of a phage is determined…
Uncategorized Bacteriophage therapy: From lab to clinical practice 12 Dec 2023 Interaction of Bacteriophages with the Immune System: Induction of Bacteriophage-Specific Antibodies Abstract In all cases when a bacteriophage makes a direct contact with a mammalian organism, it may challenge the…
CNN’s ‘Vital Signs’ on phage therapy 5 Dec 202311 Dec 2023 Antibiotics have been hailed as a "miracle drug" since the discovery of penicillin in 1928, but now, more bacteria are developing resistance to antibiotics. In 2019, the United Nations estimated…
Uncategorized Designing phage cocktail 3 Dec 202311 Dec 2023 Read here: https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/spectrum.01258-23 Phage therapy, an emerging strategy in the fight against recalcitrant bacterial infections, encounters a significant hurdle posed by the development of phage-resistant bacterial strains. To address this…
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