Bacteriophage therapy: Developments and directions

MP Nikolich, AA Filippov - Antibiotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
In an era of proliferating multidrug resistant bacterial infections that are exhausting the
capacity of existing chemical antibiotics and in which the development of new antibiotics is …

Multistep diversification in spatiotemporal bacterial-phage coevolution

E Shaer Tamar, R Kishony - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
The evolutionary arms race between phages and bacteria, where bacteria evolve resistance
to phages and phages retaliate with resistance-countering mutations, is a major driving force …

Treatment of Wound Infections in a Mouse Model Using Zn2+-Releasing Phage Bound to Gold Nanorods

H Peng, D Rossetto, SS Mansy, MC Jordan, KP Roos… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria, particularly Gram-negative organisms, are
increasingly difficult to treat using antibiotics. A potential alternative is “phage therapy”, in …

A phage foundry framework to systematically develop viral countermeasures to combat antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens

VK Mutalik, AP Arkin - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
At its current rate, the rise of antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) infections is predicted to paralyze
our industries and healthcare facilities while becoming the leading global cause of loss of …

Evaluating the potential efficacy and limitations of a phage for joint antibiotic and phage therapy of Staphylococcus aureus infections

BA Berryhill, DL Huseby, IC McCall… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
In response to increasing frequencies of antibiotic-resistant pathogens, there has been a
resurrection of interest in the use of bacteriophage to treat bacterial infections: phage …

Improving the Inhibitory Effect of Phages against Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolated from a Burn Patient Using a Combination of Phages and Antibiotics

BL Aghaee, M Khan Mirzaei, MY Alikhani, A Mojtahedi… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Antibiotic resistance causes around 700,000 deaths a year worldwide. Without immediate
action, we are fast approaching a post-antibiotic era in which common infections can result …

Experimental evolution of the TolC-receptor phage U136B functionally identifies a tail fiber protein involved in adsorption through strong parallel adaptation

AR Burmeister, E Tzintzun-Tapia, C Roush… - Applied and …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Bacteriophages have received recent attention for their therapeutic potential to treat
antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections. One particular idea in phage therapy is to use …

Stepwise Evolution of E. coli C and ΦX174 Reveals Unexpected Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) Diversity

J Romeyer Dherbey, L Parab, J Gallie… - Molecular Biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Phage therapy is a promising method for the treatment of multidrug-resistant bacterial
infections. However, its long-term efficacy depends on understanding the evolutionary …

Mucoidy, a general mechanism for maintaining lytic phage in populations of bacteria

W Chaudhry, E Lee, A Worthy, Z Weiss… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We present evidence that phage resistance resulting from overproduction of
exopolysaccharides, mucoidy, provides a general answer to the longstanding question of …

Comparison of bacterial suppression by phage cocktails, dual‐receptor generalists, and coevolutionarily trained phages

JM Borin, JJ Lee, KR Gerbino… - Evolutionary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The evolution and spread of antibiotic‐resistant bacteria have renewed interest in phage
therapy, the use of bacterial viruses (phages) to combat bacterial infections. The delivery of …