Bacteriophage-based microbial control could help address a growing need to attenuate the
proliferation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) …

Bacteriophages, or simply phages, are the most abundant biological entities on Earth. One
of the most interesting characteristics of these viruses, which infect and use bacteria as their …

Bacteriophages were initially considered to offer the key to the control of bacterial infections;
early studies, however, proved largely unsuccessful. In the 1940s and 1950s, pioneering …

Bacteriophages (phages) are viruses of bacteria that can kill and lyse the bacteria they
infect. After their discovery early in the 20th century, phages were widely used to treat …

Phages are valuable models or surrogates for enteric viruses because they share many
fundamental properties and features. Among these are structure, composition, morphology …

Although they were discovered during the second decade of the 20th century, a clash of
great personalities conspired to prevent, for the next 20 years, a widespread appreciation of …

The global increase in multidrug-resistant infections caused by various pathogens has
raised concerns in human and veterinary medicine. This has renewed interest in the …

The experimentally amenable nature of phage and their use in testing fundamental
biological questions have meant that phage research has had a profound effect on modern …

Phages have been proposed as natural antimicrobial agents to fight bacterial infections in
humans, in animals or in crops of agricultural importance. Phages have also been discussed …

Strictly lytic phages have been consensually preferred for phage therapy purposes. In
contrast, temperate phages have been avoided due to an inherent capacity to mediate …