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Book title: Frontiers in Anti-infective Agents Chapter 3, Phage Therapy as an Alternative Antibacterial Therapy Authors: Nachimuthu Ramesh*, Prasanth Manohar, Archana Loganathan, Kandasamy Eniyan and Sebastian Leptihn Abstract: Antibiotic resistance…

In December of 2008, Minnesotan chef John Haverty was pumping gas into his car when he slipped and fell on a patch of ice. He twisted his right knee, ripping…

Antibiotic resistance poses one of the most important health challenges of the 21st century. And time has already run out to stop its dire consequences. The rise of multidrug-resistant bacteria has already…

Organs-on-chips (OoCs), also known as microphysiological systems or ‘tissue chips’ (the terms are synonymous), have attracted substantial interest in recent years owing to their potential to be informative at multiple…

World Phage Week 2021 - Oct 22nd - 28th, a phage therapy awareness week. To all the phage enthusiasts around the globe. Lets make phage therapy awareness among the public!…

Failing to plan, it’s been said, is planning to fail. By this standard, the United States and other countries are planning for failure when it comes to preparing for the next…

Phage therapy is the concept of using viruses (known as phage) to kill bacteria, instead of using antibiotics. A growing number of infections, including pneumonia, tuberculosis, gonorrhoea, and salmonellosis, are…

Complete Genome Sequence of the Lytic Bacteriophage Phab24, Which Infects Clinical Strains of the Nosocomial Pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii Microbiol Resour Announc 10:e00669-21. https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.00669-21Phab24 was isolated from river water in Zhejiang…

Bacteriophages are everywhere. Considered the most abundant organisms on the face of the earth, these microscopic viruses that selectively target and kill bacteria can be found wherever bacteria exist—in soil,…