The ability of agriculture to continually provide food to a growing world population is of
crucial importance. Bacterial diseases of plants and animals have continually reduced …

Phage therapy is the use of bacteriophages—viruses that use bacteria as their host cells—
as biocontrol agents of bacteria. Currently, phage therapy is garnering renewed interest as …

Phage therapy—application of bacteria-specific viruses to reduce densities of pathogenic or
nuisance bacteria—is a two-step process involving phage penetration to target bacteria …

Antibiotics have improved the length and quality of life of people worldwide and have had an
immeasurable influence on agricultural animal health and the efficiency of animal …

Bacteriophages have long been recognized for their potential as biotherapeutic agents. The
recent approval for the use of phages of Listeria monocytogenes for food safety purposes …

Bacteriophages are ubiquitous in nature and their use is a current promising alternative in
biological control. Multidrug resistant (MDR) bacterial strains are present in the livestock …

Contamination of meat products with food-borne pathogens usually results from the carcass
coming in contact with the feces of an infected animal during processing. In the case of …

Interest in using bacteriophages to treat bacterial infections (phage therapy) is growing, but
there have been few experiments comparing the effects of different treatment strategies on …

Humans harbour a large quantity of microbes in the intestinal tract and have evolved
symbiotic relationships with many of them. However, several specific bacterial pathobionts …

Having co-evolved with bacteria over hundreds of millions of years, bacteriophage are
effective killers of specific bacterial hosts. Therefore, phage therapies for infection are a …