Natural killers: opportunities and challenges for the use of bacteriophages in microbial food safety from the one health perspective

M Lavilla, P Domingo-Calap, S Sevilla-Navarro… - Foods, 2023 - mdpi.com
Ingestion of food or water contaminated with pathogenic bacteria may cause serious
diseases. The One Health approach may help to ensure food safety by anticipating …

Multidrug-resistant enteric bacteria in Nigeria and potential use of bacteriophages as biocontrol

GK Oyejobi, WF Sule, SB Akinde, FM Khan… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Enteric bacterial pathogens have been implicated in many cases of gastroenteritis in
Nigeria, a West African country. This situation is worsened by some reports of the high …

Complexity, challenges and costs of implementing phage therapy

S Leptihn, B Loh - Future Microbiology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Phage therapy is a fascinating and promising concept of a directed process that happens
naturally many billion times every second in every ecosystem, from our digestive tract to the …

The future of virology is synthetic

RA White III - Msystems, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
The virosphere (ie, global virome) represents a vast library of unknown genes on the planet.
Synthetic biology through engineering principles could be the key to unlocking this massive …

Collateral sensitivity increases the efficacy of a rationally designed bacteriophage combination to control Salmonella enterica

L Acton, HV Pye, G Thilliez, R Kolenda… - Journal of …, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
The ability of virulent bacteriophages to lyse bacteria influences bacterial evolution, fitness,
and population structure. Knowledge of both host susceptibility and resistance factors is …

A review and new perspective on oral bacteriophages: manifestations in the ecology of oral diseases

X Guo, X Wang, J Shi, J Ren, J Zeng… - Journal of Oral …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Objective To explore the manifestations of bacteriophages in different oral disease
ecologies, including periodontal diseases, dental caries, endodontic infections, and oral …

Assessment of resistance to colicinogenic synthetic phage antimicrobial system

M McGillin, JI Tokman, E Hsu… - Microbiology Spectrum, 2024 - journals.asm.org
This work presents a multi-hurdle approach that addresses antimicrobial resistance by
minimizing the selective pressure of antimicrobials using a novel colicinogenic–phage …

Phage-bacterial evolutionary interactions: experimental models and complications

GK Oyejobi, X Zhang, D Xiong, F Ogolla… - Critical Reviews in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Phage treatment of bacterial infections has offered some hope even as the crisis of
antimicrobial resistance continues to be on the rise. However, bacterial resistance to phage …