Bacteriophages (phages), as natural antibacterial agents, are being rediscovered because
of the growing threat of multi-and pan-drug-resistant bacterial pathogens globally. However …

Highlights•Phages need to attach to a receptor on the bacterial surface to initiate infection.•It
is not common practice to identify these receptors before phage therapy use.•Identifying …

Bacteriophages provide excellent tools for diagnostics, remediation, and targeted
microbiome manipulation, yet isolating viruses with suitable host specificity remains …

Bacteria that cause life-threatening infections in humans are becoming increasingly difficult
to treat. In some instances, this is due to intrinsic and acquired antibiotic resistance …

The current problems with increasing bacterial resistance to antibacterial therapies, resulting
in a growing frequency of incurable bacterial infections, necessitates the acceleration of …

Some bacterial species are deadly disease-causing pathogens with high morbidity and
mortality in humans worldwide. Key interfaces in the transmission of bacterial pathogens …

At the end of a lytic bacteriophage replication cycle in Gram-positive bacteria, peptidoglycan-
degrading endolysins that cause explosive cell lysis of the host can also attack non-infected …

Highlights•Phages use structurally diverse receptor binding proteins (RBPs) to target
different cell wall structures.•RBPs play a critical role in spatial and temporal positioning of …

Bacteriophages (phages) are selective viral predators of bacteria. Abundant and ubiquitous
in nature, phages can be used to treat bacterial infections (phage therapy), including …

Foodborne microorganisms are an important cause of human illness worldwide. Two-thirds
of human foodborne diseases are caused by bacterial pathogens throughout the globe …