Editorial for the Special Issue:“Phage Therapy: A Biological Approach to Treatment of Bacterial Infections”

S Kiljunen - Antibiotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
The emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria presents a major challenge in terms of
increased morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs. The World Health Organization (WHO) …

Phage Therapy as an Alternative Therapy

N Ramesh, P Manohar, A Loganathan… - Frontiers in Anti …, 2021 - books.google.com
Antibiotic resistance is one of the growing concerns in healthcare settings. Most of the
clinical and community (bacterial) strains have grown immune to almost all the available …

Editorial [Hot Topic: The 'Nuts and Bolts' of Phage Therapy (Guest Editor: Stephen T. Abedon)]

ST Abedon - Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
Bacteriophages (phages) are the viruses of bacteria and phage therapy is the application of
phages to control or eliminate bacteria and their infections. Phage therapy holds great …

[PDF][PDF] Phage therapy: An overview of the features, challenges, and possibilities as an alternative to antibiotics

ALP da Costa, RL Resque - Journal of Advances in …, 2023 - microbiojournal.com
Antibiotic resistance is a public health concern that jeopardizes the efficacy of the therapies
with these drugs and raises the possibility of epidemic events involving the emergence and …

[HTML][HTML] A phage therapy guide for clinicians and basic scientists: background and highlighting applications for developing countries

A Khalid, RCY Lin, JR Iredell - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Approximately 10% of global health research is devoted to 90% of global disease burden
(the so-called “10/90 Gap”) and it often neglects those diseases most prevalent in low …

Phage therapy

J Azeredo, JP Pirnay, D Pires… - WikiJournal of …, 2021 - search.informit.org
Phage therapy refers to the use of bacteriophages (phages-bacterial viruses) as therapeutic
agents against infectious bacterial diseases. This therapeutic approach emerged in the …

Opportunities and regulatory challenges of phage therapy

JR Ribeiro - 2023 - repositorio.ul.pt
In recent years, a global health crisis has emerged, mainly driven by the ineffectiveness in
fighting pathogenic bacteria causing deathly infections. Bacteria have evolved to become …

Phage therapy: a promising approach to counter antimicrobial drug resistance

JRM Raj, PB Ajakkala, BK Kumar, VK Deekshit… - Biotechnology in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Antimicrobial resistance is a major public health concern around the world. Bacteria are
gaining increased resistance to antibiotics, and a simple infection can now be lethal. The …

Recent advance in bacteriophage therapy

S Wang, Y Tong - Microbiology, 2008 - pesquisa.bvsalud.org
At the time of phage's discovery, phage therapy was regarded as a possible treatment
method against bacterial infection. Although phage therapy was used to treat and prevent …

How Phage Therapy Works, Its Advantages and Disadvantages: Mini Review.

V Mishra, N Bankar, Y Tiwade… - Journal of Pure & …, 2024 - search.ebscohost.com
Phage therapy is a treatment method that uses bacteriophages, which are viruses that infect
bacteria, to treat bacterial infections. Phages are natural adversaries, helping to restrict their …