Bacteriophages are not forgotten viruses anymore: scientists and practitioners seek to
understand phage pharmacokinetics in animals and humans, investigating bacteriophages …

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

Bacteriophage (phage) taxonomy has been in flux since its inception over four decades ago.
Genome sequencing has put pressure on the classification system and recent years have …

Microbiomes from every environment contain a myriad of uncultivated archaeal and
bacterial viruses, but studying these viruses is hampered by the lack of a universal, scalable …

Background: With advances in sequencing technology and decreasing costs, the number of
phage genomes that have been sequenced has increased markedly in the past decade …

This article is a summary of the activities of the ICTV's Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses
Subcommittee for the years 2018 and 2019. Highlights include the creation of a new order …

The use of viruses infecting bacteria (bacteriophages or phages) to treat bacterial infections
has been ongoing clinically for approximately 100 years. Despite that long history, the …

Bacteriophages, viruses that only kill specific bacteria, are receiving substantial attention as
nontraditional antibacterial agents that may help alleviate the growing antibiotic resistance …

Klebsiella spp. are commensals of the human microbiota, and a leading cause of
opportunistic nosocomial infections. The incidence of multidrug resistant (MDR) strains of …

Agriculture, together with aquaculture, supplies most of the foodstuffs required by the world
human population to survive. Hence, bacterial diseases affecting either agricultural crops …