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Comparative genomics of Shiga toxin encoding bacteriophages [PDF]

, 2012
Background Stx bacteriophages are responsible for driving the dissemination of Stx toxin genes (stx) across their bacterial host range. Lysogens carrying Stx phages can cause severe, lifethreatening disease and Stx toxin is an integral virulence factor.
Alan J McCarthy, Darby Alistair C, Alistair C Darby, Allison Heather E, Rooks David J, Rooks, David, Smith, Darren, Paul CM Fogg, Thomson, Nicholas, David J Rooks, Smith Darren L, McCarthy Alan J, McCarthy, Alan, Heather E Allison, Darren L Smith, Allison, Heather, Fogg Paul CM, Nick R Thomson, Fogg, Paul, Darby, Alistair, Thomson Nick R   +20 more
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Recent Advances in Non-Conventional Antimicrobial Approaches for Chronic Wound Biofilms: Have We Found the ‘Chink in the Armor’?

Biomedicines, 2019
Chronic wounds are a major healthcare burden, with huge public health and economic impact. Microbial infections are the single most important cause of chronic, non-healing wounds.
Snehal Kadam, Saptarsi Shai, Aditi Shahane, Karishma S Kaushik   +3 more
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Phage Cocktails and the Future of Phage Therapy

Future Microbiology, 2013
Viruses of bacteria, known as bacteriophages or phages, were discovered nearly 100 years ago. Their potential as antibacterial agents was appreciated almost immediately, with the first 'phage therapy' trials predating Fleming's discovery of penicillin by approximately a decade.
Benjamin K, Chan, Stephen T, Abedon, Catherine, Loc-Carrillo   +2 more
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Genetic determinants of host tropism in Klebsiella phages [Dataset]

, 2023
Bacteriophages play key roles in bacterial ecology and evolution and are potential antimicrobials. However, the determinants of phage-host specificity remain elusive.
Beamud, Beatriz, García-González, Neris, González-Candelas, Fernando, Domingo-Calap, Pilar, Gómez-Ortega, Mar, Sanjuán, Rafael   +5 more
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The impact of spontaneously produced lysogenic phages on the ecology and biology of soybean bradyrhizobia

, 2023
Wommack, K. EricFuhrmann, Jeffry J.Polson, Shawn W.Currently, soybeans are among the select few crops that can potentially solve our massive humanitarian challenge of global protein nutrition in an environmentally sustainable manner.
Joglekar, Prasanna
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The DNA Ejection Process in Bacteriophage λ [PDF]

, 2007
Bacteriophages have long served as model systems through which the nature of life may be explored. From a physical or mechanical point of view, phages are excellent examples of natural nanotechnology: they are nanometer-scale systems which depend ...
Grayson, Paul Daniel
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Isolation and Characterization of Two Virulent Phages to Combat Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococcus faecalis causing Dental Caries

, 2021
This study aimed to isolate and characterize bacteriophages, as a biocontrol agent, against certain antibiotic-resistant bacteria causing dental caries. Here, two dental caries-causing bacteria S. aureus and E.
Noha K. El-Dougdoug, Mohamed A. Nasr-Eldin, Yara H. Elazab, Ahmed Esmael   +3 more
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Recent Advances in Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Research in Latin America

Microorganisms, 2018
Pathogenic Escherichia coli are known to be a common cause of diarrheal disease and a frequently occurring bacterial infection in children and adults in Latin America. Despite the effort to combat diarrheal infections, the south of the American continent
Alfredo G. Torres, Maria M. Amaral, Leticia Bentancor, Lucia Galli, Jorge Goldstein, Alejandra Krüger, Maricarmen Rojas-Lopez   +6 more
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Pathogen-phage geomapping to overcome resistance

eLife
The rise of antibiotic resistance has renewed interest in bacteriophages as therapeutic alternatives. However, coevolution of phage and bacteria will naturally give rise to phage-resistant pathogens, complicating phage therapy efforts.
Camilla Do, Keiko Christine Salazar, James D Chang, Justin R Clark, Austen Lee Terwilliger, Paul Ruchhoeft, Paul Nicholls, Anthony W Maresso   +7 more
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First European Erwinia amylovora Lytic Bacteriophage Cocktails Effective in the Host: Characterization and Prospects for Fire Blight Biocontrol

Biology
Fire blight, caused by the plant-pathogenic bacterium Erwinia amylovora, is a highly contagious and difficult-to-control disease due to its efficient dissemination and survival and the scarcity of effective control methods. Copper and antibiotics are the
Elena G. Biosca, Ricardo Delgado Santander, Félix Morán, Àngela Figàs-Segura, Rosa Vázquez, José Francisco Català-Senent, Belén Álvarez   +6 more
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