Viruses that kill specific bacteria, known as bacteriophages, are emerging as an alternative to antibiotics in poultry ...

In a recent review published in Cell, researchers presented an overview of bacteriophage treatment, including mechanisms, types, design and applications of bacteriophage therapy. Study: Phage therapy: ...

From medicine to agriculture and aquaculture, bacteriophages are poised to have a huge global impact. As viruses which target only bacterial cells, they hold promise as an alternative to antibiotics, ...

We found that this bacteriophage has different fibrils—or 'legs'—and receptors on them that recognize bacteria," added Oksana Kotovskaya, a co-author of the work and a Ph.D. student of the Life ...

What is a bacteriophage and how many different types of phage exist? A phage is a virus that infects a bacterium. People often get very confused about what the difference is between a virus and a ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a fatal infectious disease that caused 1.5 million deaths worldwide in 2020. Developing countries are particularly affected and diagnosis, especially in children and adolescents, ...

Bacteriophages or “phages” is the terms used for viruses that infect bacteria. The UAB researchers, led by Terje Dokland, Ph.D., in collaboration with Asma Hatoum-Aslan, Ph.D., at the University of ...

At Purdue University, undergraduates get to get their hands dirty in the lab. Metaphorically, of course – their hands and labs are clean, but their understanding of the in-depth complexities of the ...

Vibrio cholerae is a facultative pathogen that has an environmental reservoir in aquatic ecosystems and a pathogenic phase in the human small intestine. It produces cholera toxin in the small ...

The lytic and lysogenic cycles are the two main phases of a virus’ infective lifecycle and route to replication. The lytic cycle, or virulent infection, involves a virus taking control of a host cell ...

Is it “bacteriophage,” as with the plural of “sheep”? Or is it “bacteriophages”? You may not find the answer in a dictionary, which typically doesn’t provide plurals. Researchers and other experts ...