Increasing antimicrobial resistance and medical device-related infections have led to a
renewed interest in phage therapy as an alternative or adjunct to conventional …

Antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens presents a substantial threat to the control of
infectious diseases. Development of new classes of antibiotics has slowed in recent years …

Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) has become a fundamental tool in modern
therapeutics, notably due to the expanding versatility of photosensitizers (PSs) and the …

Hundreds of trillions of diverse bacteriophages (phages) peacefully thrive within and on the
human body. However, whether and how phages influence their mammalian hosts is poorly …

Phage therapy is a medical form of biological control of bacterial infections, one that uses
naturally occurring viruses, called bacteriophages or phages, as antibacterial agents …

The increasing incidence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) presents a global crisis to
healthcare, with longstanding antimicrobial agents becoming less effective at treating and …

Delivery of therapeutic compounds to the site of action is crucial. While many chemical
substances such as beta-lactam antibiotics can reach therapeutic levels in most parts …

While phage therapy carried out as compassionate use (experimental therapy) has recently
flourished, providing numerous case reports of supposedly healed patients, clinical trials …

Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is a common and virulent human pathogen causing
several serious illnesses including skin abscesses, wound infections, endocarditis …

The continuous emergence of multidrug-resistant pathogens evoked the development of
innovative approaches targeting virulence factors unique to their pathogenic cascade …