According to the latest reports from WHO, the incidence of antibiotic-resistant bacterial
infections is increasing worldwide, resulting in increased morbidity and mortality and a rising …

The acronym ESKAPE includes six nosocomial pathogens that exhibit multidrug resistance
and virulence: Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae …

Increasing rates of infection by antibiotic resistant bacteria have led to a resurgence of
interest in bacteriophage (phage) therapy. Several phage therapy studies in animals and …

Antibiotic resistance has become an indispensably alarming menace to the global
community. The primary factors are overuse and abuse of antibiotics, lack of novel …

Bacteriophages (BPs) are viruses that can infect and kill bacteria without any negative effect
on human or animal cells. For this reason, it is supposed that they can be used, alone or in …

Background Diabetic foot ulcers are a common complication of poorly controlled diabetes
and often become infected, termed diabetic foot infection. There have been numerous …

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 …

Against a backdrop of global antibiotic resistance and increasing awareness of the
importance of the human microbiota, there has been resurgent interest in the potential use of …

Bacteriophages, or phages, are viruses that infect bacteria. They were discovered around a
century ago and have been used ever since for therapeutic purposes, particularly in former …

Biofilms are clusters of bacteria that live in association with surfaces. Their main
characteristic is that the bacteria inside the biofilms are attached to other bacterial cells and …