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Bacteriophages are viruses that lead to the exponential lysis of bacterial cells by infecting specific bacterial hosts, and although bacteriophage therapy (BT) for the treatment of multidrug resistant (MDR) infections…

Very interesting to read about this concept... Abstract Natural and engineered phages have been used in many applications, but their use to deliver user-defined genetic cargoes has been hampered by…

Future vaccines might involve a deep breath rather than an injection, if technology detailed in research published Thursday pans out. The proof-of-concept study in mice and primates suggests that vaccines…

New Publication from Leptihn Lab in Applied and Environmental Microbiology AUTHORS: Belinda Loh, Vijay Singh Gondil, Prasanth Manohar, Fazal Mehmood Khan, Hang Yang, Sebastian Leptihn https://aem.asm.org/content/early/2020/12/08/AEM.01979-20 ABSTRACT Delivery of therapeutic compounds to the site of…

I will be serving as an Associate Editor of Critical Reviews in Microbiology, https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=imby20 Editorial board Editor in Chief: Professor Gordon Ramage - University of Glasgow, UKAssociate Editors:Muhammad Adnan Ashraf - University…

Some hospital schemes encourage proper antimicrobial stewardship but progress has been slow. When a leading medical journal warned against seeking treatment in Indian hospitals because a drug-resistant superbug had emerged…

BiomX has unveiled a platform designed for more rapid and efficient development of phage therapy, which the company is using to test potential treatments, including one for Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in people with cystic…

Maria Madrigal was born with polycystic kidney disease, though she would not know she had the inherited disorder until adulthood when growing cysts caused the organs to begin to fail.…

Couple of my (research group) publications in Front. Microbiol. hits new heights with 10,000 views. Both the articles (1 research and 1 review) deals with bacteriophages and phage therapy. Here…

FDA allows phage therapy for COVID19 patients The FDA has given Adaptive Phage Therapeutics a green light to Expanded Access IND to use of phage therapy for COVID19 patients who…