Biological foundations of successful bacteriophage therapy

C Venturini, A Petrovic Fabijan… - EMBO Molecular …, 2022‏ - embopress.org
Bacteriophages (phages) are selective viral predators of bacteria. Abundant and ubiquitous
in nature, phages can be used to treat bacterial infections (phage therapy), including …

Understanding the complex phage-host interactions in biofilm communities

DP Pires, LDR Melo, J Azeredo - Annual Review of Virology, 2021‏ - annualreviews.org
Bacteriophages and bacterial biofilms are widely present in natural environments, a fact that
has accelerated the evolution of phages and their bacterial hosts in these particular niches …

Phage Paride can kill dormant, antibiotic-tolerant cells of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by direct lytic replication

E Maffei, AK Woischnig, MR Burkolter, Y Heyer… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Bacteriophages are ubiquitous viral predators that have primarily been studied using fast-
growing laboratory cultures of their bacterial hosts. However, microbial life in nature is …

Combination of genetically diverse Pseudomonas phages enhances the cocktail efficiency against bacteria

A Naknaen, T Samernate, W Wannasrichan… - Scientific Reports, 2023‏ - nature.com
Phage treatment has been used as an alternative to antibiotics since the early 1900s.
However, bacteria may acquire phage resistance quickly, limiting the use of phage …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive review on phage therapy and phage-based drug development

L Cui, S Watanabe, K Miyanaga, K Kiga, T Sasahara… - Antibiotics, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
Phage therapy, the use of bacteriophages (phages) to treat bacterial infections, is regaining
momentum as a promising weapon against the rising threat of multidrug-resistant (MDR) …

Unveil the secret of the bacteria and phage arms race

Y Wang, H Fan, Y Tong - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Bacteria have developed different mechanisms to defend against phages, such as
preventing phages from being adsorbed on the surface of host bacteria; through the …

Genome-driven elucidation of phage-host interplay and impact of phage resistance evolution on bacterial fitness

P Markwitz, C Lood, T Olszak, V van Noort… - The ISME …, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
When considering the interactions between bacteriophages and their host, the issue of
phage-resistance emergence is a key element in understanding the ecological impact of …

[HTML][HTML] An overview of the current state of phage therapy for the treatment of biofilm-related infections

DP Pires, L Meneses, AC Brandao, J Azeredo - Current opinion in virology, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Bacterial biofilms are involved in many chronic and difficult-to-treat infections. Phage therapy
against infectious biofilms is becoming a promising strategy, as suggested by the increasing …

A novel method to create efficient phage cocktails via use of phage-resistant bacteria

C Li, T Shi, Y Sun, Y Zhang - Applied and environmental …, 2022‏ - journals.asm.org
The rapid antiphage mutation of pathogens is a big challenge often encountered in the
application of phages in aquaculture, animal husbandry, and human disease prevention. A …

Profiles of phage in global hospital wastewater: Association with microbial hosts, antibiotic resistance genes, metal resistance genes, and mobile genetic elements

Y Kang, J Wang, Y Wang, Z Li - Science of The Total Environment, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Hospital wastewater (HWW) is known to host taxonomically diverse microbial communities,
yet limited information is available on the phages infecting these microorganisms. To fill this …