A bacteriophage is a type of virus that infects bacteria. In fact, the word "bacteriophage" literally means "bacteria eater," because bacteriophages destroy their host cells. All bacteriophages ...

With antimicrobial resistance rising as one of the world's most pressing health threats, the 8th World Congress on Targeting ...

The team then synthesized a lysin from a bacteriophage, or virus that attacks bacteria, that infects S. hominis. During in vitro experiments, this lysin was found to target only S. hominis ...

Scientists are now looking to bacteriophage — viruses that infect bacteria — and their potential to treat drug-resistant ...

at day 15 – in the first placebo-controlled trial of the BX004 bacteriophage cocktail. The results from the phase 1 portion of the phase1/2a study have been described as “impressive” by ...

The following two articles are concerned with the genetic control of mutation rate. The first describes the anti-mutagenic effect of some DNA polymerase mutations on phage T4 mutation rates, and ...

Virulence of Yersinia has been studied in my laboratory since 1980 and the approach has been to use the tools of modern molecular biology and genetics to elucidate the selected aspects of it.