Antibiotic resistance is arguably the biggest current threat to global health. An increasing
number of infections are becoming harder or almost impossible to treat, carrying high …

For a bacteriophage to be useful for phage therapy it must be both isolated from the
environment and shown to have certain characteristics beyond just killing strains of the …

Purpose Widespread antibiotic-resistant bacteria are threatening the arsenal of existing
antibiotics. Not only are antibiotics less likely to be effective today, but their extensive use …

Summary Background Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most prevalent microbial
diseases and their financial burden on society is substantial. In the context of increasing …

Increasing reports of antimicrobial resistance and limited new antibiotic discoveries and
development have fuelled innovation in other research fields and led to a revitalization of …

Phage therapy is the use of bacterial viruses as antibacterial agents. A primary
consideration for commercial development of phages for phage therapy is the number of …

With the emerging threat of infections caused by multidrug resistant bacteria, phages have
been reconsidered as an alternative for treating infections caused by tenacious pathogens …

Highlights•Phages need to attach to a receptor on the bacterial surface to initiate infection.•It
is not common practice to identify these receptors before phage therapy use.•Identifying …

Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health, as it can make the
treatment of bacterial infections in humans difficult owing to their high incidence rate …

Staphylococcus aureus is recognized as commensal as well as opportunistic pathogen of
humans and animals. Methicillin resistant strain of S. aureus (MRSA) has emerged as a …