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…
Uncategorized Pseudomonas aeruginosa Phage 30 Nov 202311 Dec 2023 The use of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Phage PASA16 for non resolving infections Abstract Background A growing number of compassionate phage therapy use cases reported in the last decade, with only a limited number…
Uncategorized Fecal Transplantation of Klebsiella pneumoniae and its Bacteriophages 30 Nov 202311 Dec 2023 A Longitudinal Study of The Effect of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation on Klebsiella pneumoniae and its Bacteriophages in a Patient with Long-Term Colonization Abstract Background Live biotherapeutic products such as fecal microbiota transplantation…
Uncategorized Phage Therapy in Lung Transplantation 9 Nov 202311 Dec 2023 An impactful review article on phage therapy by Saima Aslam, IPATH After the seminal case of intravenous phage therapy in the United States in 2016, the past 7 years have…
Uncategorized Phage preparation for therapy 7 Nov 202311 Dec 2023 Magistral Phage Preparations: Is This the Model for Everyone?BY Jean-Paul Pirnay,  Gilbert Verbeken Abstract Phage therapy is increasingly put forward as a promising additional tool to help curb the global antimicrobial…
Uncategorized Phage cocktail BX004 reduces P. aeruginosa in small trial 3 Nov 202311 Dec 2023 BX004, BiomX’s experimental phage cocktail — a treatment that uses certain viruses to kill disease-causing microorganisms — was seen to reduce the number of Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria present in the lungs of people with cystic…
Uncategorized Phage therapy shows promise for antibiotic-resistant infections 3 Nov 202311 Dec 2023 Bacteriophage therapy could be a promising approach for treating antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in people with cystic fibrosis (CF), according to a small review study. Scientists believe the review, involving three CF patients…
Uncategorized Phage-antibiotic combinations against P. aeruginosa biofilms 25 Oct 202311 Dec 2023 Phage-antibiotic combinations against multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in in vitro static and dynamic biofilm models https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/aac.00578-23 ABSTRACT: Biofilm-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections pose a severe threat to public health and are responsible for high morbidity and mortality. Phage-antibi otic combinations (PACs)…
Uncategorized Bacteriophages in organic solvents 21 Oct 202311 Dec 2023 Stability of bacteriophages in organic solvents for formulations International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 2023 Abstract Bacteriophages or phages used as an alternative therapy for treating multi-drug resistant infections require formulation consideration.…
New: Single gene lysis proteins of ssRNA phages 18 Oct 20238 Dec 2023 Physiological characterization of single gene lysis proteins From Ry Young -Lysis lab Abstract Until recently only 11 distinct Sgls (single gene lysis proteins) have been experimentally identified. Of these, three…
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