Hospitals and industrial wastes are discharged directly to Tigris River in Baghdad city, Iraq
without any specific treatment. They are a potential hot spot of selection of antibiotic …

Most approaches to combat antibiotic resistant bacteria concentrate on discovering new
antibiotics or modifying existing ones. However, one of the most promising alternatives is the …

Bacteriophages are viruses that can infect pathogenic bacteria, as they are highly host
specific. We aimed to isolate the bacteriophage which infect Escherichia coli from a sample …

Recently, dissemination of antibiotic resistant bacteria considered as a major public health
concern. Therefore, bacteriophages gained great attention as a promising alternative …

This research was designed to isolate and test the lytic action of a bacteriophage specific to
Escherichia coli. Both Escherichia coli and bacteriophages were isolated from farmlands …

Bacteriophages have been found to be effective against a wide variety of pathogenic
bacteria as they are highly host specific. The present study describes the isolation of …

Background: Nowadays, due to the emergence of drug resistance to antibiotics, a good
alternative to drugs should be found. Bacteriophages are viruses that play a very important …

Methods: Eight samples of raw sewage, each containing approximately 50 ml of raw sewage
with 10 minute gap, were prepared from Zargandeh wastewater treatment plant, Tehran …

Materials and Methods: In this study, after evaluation of antibiotic sensitivity of 20 clinical
bacterial isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, isolation of lytic phages was performed …

The pathogenic strains of Escherichia coli (E. coli) are frequent cause of urinary tract
infections including catheter-associated, soft tissue infections and sepsis. The growing …