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 …

Lyme borreliosis diagnosis: State of the art of improvements and innovations

M Guérin, M Shawky, A Zedan, S Octave, B Avalle… - BMC microbiology, 2023 - Springer
With almost 700 000 estimated cases each year in the United States and Europe, Lyme
borreliosis (LB), also called Lyme disease, is the most common tick-borne illness in the …

Thousands of previously unknown phages discovered in whole-community human gut metagenomes

S Benler, N Yutin, D Antipov, M Rayko, S Shmakov… - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Background Double-stranded DNA bacteriophages (dsDNA phages) play pivotal roles in
structuring human gut microbiomes; yet, the gut virome is far from being fully characterized …

High cell densities favor lysogeny: induction of an H20 prophage is repressed by quorum sensing and enhances biofilm formation in Vibrio anguillarum

D Tan, MF Hansen, LN de Carvalho, HL Røder… - The ISME …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Temperate ϕH20-like phages are repeatedly identified at geographically distinct areas as
free phage particles or as prophages of the fish pathogen Vibrio anguillarum. We studied …

Induction mechanisms and strategies underlying interprophage competition during polylysogeny

JE Silpe, OP Duddy, BL Bassler - PLoS pathogens, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Phages play central roles in shaping bacterial community biology. For example, lytic
phages, by eliminating particular subpopulations of bacteria, control the composition of …

[HTML][HTML] Microbiome dynamics and genomic determinants of bovine mastitis

MN Hoque, A Istiaq, MS Rahman, MR Islam, A Anwar… - Genomics, 2020 - Elsevier
A bstract The milk of lactating cows presents a complex ecosystem of interconnected
microbial communities which can influence the pathophysiology of mastitis. We …

The enemy of my enemy: new insights regarding bacteriophage–mammalian cell interactions

K Bodner, AL Melkonian, MW Covert - Trends in Microbiology, 2021 - cell.com
Bacteriophages (phages) are the most abundant biological entity in the human body, but
until recently the role that phages play in human health was not well characterized. Although …

Induction of mastitis by cow-to-mouse fecal and milk microbiota transplantation causes microbiome dysbiosis and genomic functional perturbation in mice

MN Hoque, MS Rahman, T Islam, M Sultana… - Animal microbiome, 2022 - Springer
Background Mastitis pathogenesis involves a wide range of opportunistic and apparently
resident microorganims including bacteria, viruses and archaea. In dairy animals, microbes …

Aquatic environment drives the emergence of cell wall-deficient dormant forms in Listeria

F Carvalho, A Carreaux, A Sartori-Rupp… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Stressed bacteria can enter a dormant viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state. VBNC
pathogens pose an increased health risk as they are undetectable by growth-based …

Active lysogeny in Listeria monocytogenes is a bacteria-phage adaptive response in the mammalian environment

A Pasechnek, L Rabinovich, O Stadnyuk, G Azulay… - Cell Reports, 2020 - cell.com
Summary Some Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) strains harbor a prophage within the comK
gene, which renders it inactive. During Lm infection of macrophage cells, the prophage turns …