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Phage Therapy in Veterinary Medicine [PDF]
Antibiotics, 2021 To overcome the obstacle of antimicrobial resistance, researchers are investigating the use of phage therapy as an alternative and/or supplementation to antibiotics to treat and prevent infections both in humans and in animals. In the first part of this review, we describe the unique biological characteristics of bacteriophages and the crucial aspects ...
Loponte R. +3 more
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Phage therapy: An alternative to antibiotics in the age of multi-drug resistance. [PDF]
, 2017 The practice of phage therapy, which uses bacterial viruses (phages) to treat bacterial infections, has been around for almost a century. The universal decline in the effectiveness of antibiotics has generated renewed interest in revisiting this practice.
Koskella, Britt, Lin, Derek, Lin, Henry
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The natural dietary genistein boosts bacteriophage-mediated cancer cell killing by improving phage-targeted tumor cell transduction [PDF]
, 2016 Gene therapy has long been regarded as a promising treatment for cancer. However, cancer gene therapy is still facing the challenge of targeting gene delivery vectors specifically to tumors when administered via clinically acceptable non-invasive ...
Albahrani, M +5 more
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Phage Therapy in Germany—Update 2023 [PDF]
Viruses, 2023 Bacteriophage therapy holds promise in addressing the antibiotic-resistance crisis, globally and in Germany. Here, we provide an overview of the current situation (2023) of applied phage therapy and supporting research in Germany. The authors, an interdisciplinary group working on patient-focused bacteriophage research, addressed phage production ...
Christian Willy +19 more
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Phage Therapy in a 16-Year-Old Boy with Netherton Syndrome
Frontiers in Medicine, 2017 Netherton syndrome (NS) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder, characterized by a classical triad of clinical features, including congenital ichthyosiform erythroderma, trichorrhexis invaginata, and atopic diathesis coupled with frequent bacterial ...
Pikria Zhvania +4 more
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Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, 2022 Background Antibiotic-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) is one of the most critical pathogens in wound infections, causing high mortality and morbidity in severe cases.
Nouran Rezk +9 more
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Characterization of novel bacteriophages for biocontrol of bacterial blight in leek caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. porri [PDF]
, 2016 Pseudomonas syringae pv. porri, the causative agent of bacterial blight in leek (Allium porrum), is increasingly frequent causing problems in leek cultivation. Because of the current lack of control measures, novel bacteriophages were isolated to control
Anneleen eVolckaert +16 more
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Antibiotics, 2021 Bronisława Brandla Fejgin was a Polish-born Jewish female physician. Among Fejgin’s numerous articles in the field of microbiology, her later work was almost entirely devoted to phage research.
Andrzej Grzybowski +4 more
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Low Immunogenicity of Intravesical Phage Therapy for Urogenitary Tract Infections
Antibiotics, 2021 Patients with chronic urinary and urogenital multidrug resistant bacterial infections received phage therapy (PT) using intravesical or intravesical and intravaginal phage administration.
Sławomir Letkiewicz +5 more
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Chromosomal DNA deletion confers phage resistance to Pseudomonas aeruginosa. [PDF]
, 2014 Bacteria develop a broad range of phage resistance mechanisms, such as prevention of phage adsorption and CRISPR/Cas system, to survive phage predation.
He, Xuesong +13 more
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