Current challenges and future opportunities of phage therapy

DP Pires, AR Costa, G Pinto, L Meneses… - FEMS microbiology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Antibiotic resistance is a major public health challenge worldwide, whose implications for
global health might be devastating if novel antibacterial strategies are not quickly …

Bacteriophages of lactic acid bacteria and their impact on milk fermentations

JE Garneau, S Moineau - Microbial cell factories, 2011 - Springer
Every biotechnology process that relies on the use of bacteria to make a product or to
overproduce a molecule may, at some time, struggle with the presence of virulent phages …

Detection of Escherichia coli in Drinking Water Using T7 Bacteriophage-Conjugated Magnetic Probe

J Chen, SD Alcaine, Z Jiang, VM Rotello… - Analytical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
In this study, we demonstrate a bacteriophage (phage)-based magnetic separation scheme
for the rapid detection of Escherichia coli (E. coli) in drinking water. T7 phage is a lytic phage …

Integrated nanoplasmonic-nanofluidic biosensors with targeted delivery of analytes

AA Yanik, M Huang, A Artar, TY Chang… - Applied physics letters, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
Performances of the biosensors are often limited by the depletion zones created around the
sensing area which impede the effective analyte transport. To overcome this limitation, we …

Development of uric acid sensor using copper oxide and silver nanoparticles immobilized SMSMS fiber structure-based probe

N Agrawal, C Saha, C Kumar, R Singh… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fabrication and experimental validation of a newly developed copper oxide nanoparticles
(CuO-NPs) and silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) immobilized SM-MM-SM-MM-SM (SMSMS) in …

Bacteriophages as fecal pollution indicators

D Toribio-Avedillo, AR Blanch, M Muniesa… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Bacteriophages are promising tools for the detection of fecal pollution in different
environments, and particularly for viral pathogen risk assessment. Having similar …

Grading the commercial optical biosensor literature—Class of 2008:'The Mighty Binders'

RL Rich, DG Myszka - Journal of Molecular Recognition: An …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Optical biosensor technology continues to be the method of choice for label‐free, real‐time
interaction analysis. But when it comes to improving the quality of the biosensor literature …

Carbon nanotubes-based chemiresistive biosensors for detection of microorganisms

C García-Aljaro, LN Cella, DJ Shirale, M Park… - Biosensors and …, 2010 - Elsevier
The paper reports carbon nanotube (CNT)-based immunosensors for the detection of two
types of microorganisms, bacteria and viruses. The pathogen Escherichia coli O157: H7 and …

Fast phage detection and quantification: An optical density-based approach

D Rajnovic, X Muñoz-Berbel, J Mas - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Since 1959 with the proposal of Double Agar Layer (DAL) method for phage detection and
quantification, many sophisticated methods have emerged meanwhile. However, many of …

Detection of bacteria using bacteriophages as recognition elements immobilized on long-period fiber gratings

M Smietana, WJ Bock, P Mikulic, A Ng… - Optics …, 2011 - opg.optica.org
The paper presents for the first time a study of long-period gratings (LPGs) applied for label-
free detection of specific bacteria using physically adsorbed bacteriophages. For the …