The taxonomy of viruses is developed and overseen by the International Committee on
Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), which scrutinizes, approves and ratifies taxonomic proposals …

Leptospirosis, caused by pathogenic spirochetes belonging to the genus Leptospira, is a
zoonosis with important impacts on human and animal health worldwide. Research on the …

With this informal guide, we try to assist both new and experienced phage researchers
through two important stages that follow phage discovery; that is, naming and classification …

Phage therapy, treating bacterial infections with bacteriophages, could be a future
alternative to antibiotic treatment of bacterial infections. There are, however, several …

A large scale analysis presented in this article focuses on biological and physiological
variety of bacteriophages. A collection of 83 bacteriophages, isolated from urban sewage …

The alarming diffusion of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial strains requires investigations
on nonantibiotic therapies. Among such therapies, the use of bacteriophages (phages) as …

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria threaten life worldwide. Although new antibiotics are scarce, the
use of bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, is rarely proposed as a means of …

Phage therapy is a promising option for fighting against staphylococcal infections. Two lytic
phages, vB_SauM_phiIPLA-RODI (phiIPLA-RODI) and vB_SepM_phiIPLA-C1C (phiIPLA …

Polylysogeny is frequently considered to be the result of an adaptive evolutionary process in
which prophages confer fitness and/or virulence factors, thus making them important for …

The bacterium 'Dickeya solani', an aggressive biovar 3 variant of Dickeya dianthicola,
causes rotting and blackleg in potato. To control this pathogen using bacteriophage therapy …