Considerations and caveats in combating ESKAPE pathogens against nosocomial infections

YX Ma, CY Wang, YY Li, J Li, QQ Wan… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
ESKAPE pathogens (Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella
pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter …

[HTML][HTML] Biotechnological applications of bacteriophages: State of the art

LK Harada, EC Silva, WF Campos, FS Del Fiol… - Microbiological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Bacteriophage particles are the most abundant biological entities on our planet, infecting
specific bacterial hosts in every known environment and being major drivers of bacterial …

Bacteriophages: protagonists of a post-antibiotic era

P Domingo-Calap, J Delgado-Martínez - Antibiotics, 2018 - mdpi.com
Despite their long success for more than half a century, antibiotics are currently under the
spotlight due to the emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria. The development of new …

Immunological tolerance and function: associations between intestinal bacteria, probiotics, prebiotics, and phages

L Vitetta, G Vitetta, S Hall - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Post-birth there is a bacterial assault on all mucosal surfaces. The intestinal microbiome is
an important participant in health and disease. The pattern of composition and concentration …

Phage engineering and phage‐assisted CRISPR‐Cas delivery to combat multidrug‐resistant pathogens

K Khambhati, G Bhattacharjee, N Gohil… - Bioengineering & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Antibiotic resistance ranks among the top threats to humanity. Due to the frequent use of
antibiotics, society is facing a high prevalence of multidrug resistant pathogens, which have …

Phage therapy with a focus on the human microbiota

S Divya Ganeshan, Z Hosseinidoust - Antibiotics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria. After their discovery in the early 1900s,
bacteriophages were a primary cure against infectious disease for almost 25 years, before …

Bacteriophages in infectious diseases and beyond—A narrative review

P Ioannou, S Baliou, G Samonis - Antibiotics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The discovery of antibiotics has revolutionized medicine and has changed medical practice,
enabling successful fighting of infection. However, quickly after the start of the antibiotic era …

Phage φAB6-Borne Depolymerase Combats Acinetobacter baumannii Biofilm Formation and Infection

M Shahed-Al-Mahmud, R Roy, FG Sugiokto, MN Islam… - Antibiotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Biofilm formation is one of the main causes of increased antibiotic resistance in
Acinetobacter baumannii infections. Bacteriophages and their derivatives, such as tail …

Global trends and hotspots of phage therapy for bacterial infection: A bibliometric visualized analysis from 2001 to 2021

Z Maimaiti, Z Li, C Xu, J Chen, W Chai - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Antibiotic resistance is one of the main global threats to human health, and just
the development of new antimicrobial medications is not enough to solve the crisis. Phage …

Phage-based vaccines

Q Bao, X Li, G Han, Y Zhu, C Mao, M Yang - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2019 - Elsevier
Bacteriophages, or more colloquially as phages, are viruses that possess the ability to infect
and replicate with bacterial cells. They are assembled from two major types of biomolecules …