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 …

Viral abundance in soils can range from below detection limits in hot deserts to over 1 billion
per gram in wetlands. Abundance appears to be strongly influenced by water availability …

The world is on the cusp of a post-antibiotic era, but researchers and medical doctors have
found a way forward—by looking back at how infections were treated before the advent of …

Historically neglected by microbial ecologists, soil viruses are now thought to be critical to
global biogeochemical cycles. However, our understanding of their global distribution …

Validated methods for phage selection, host range expansion, and lytic activity
determination are indispensable for maximizing phage therapy outcomes. In this review, we …

Mycoviruses can have a marked effect on natural fungal communities and influence plant
health and productivity. However, a comprehensive picture of mycoviral diversity is still …

Salmonella contamination in foods and their formation of biofilms in food processing facility
are the primary bacterial cause of a significant number of foodborne outbreaks and …

Salmonella is a widely distributed foodborne pathogen. The use of Salmonella phages as
biocontrol agents has recently gained significant interest. Because the Salmonella genus …

Accumulating evidence has indicated that the multiple drug resistant Vibrio
parahaemolyticus may pose a serious threat to public health and economic concerns for …

Background We advocate unifying classical and genomic classification of bacteriophages by
integration of proteomic data and physicochemical parameters. Our previous application of …