Fouling in membrane bioreactors: An updated review

F Meng, S Zhang, Y Oh, Z Zhou, HS Shin, SR Chae - Water research, 2017 - Elsevier
The goal of the current article is to update new findings in membrane fouling and emerging
fouling mitigation strategies reported in recent years (post 2010) as a follow-up to our …

[HTML][HTML] Biotechnological applications of bacteriophages: State of the art

LK Harada, EC Silva, WF Campos, FS Del Fiol… - Microbiological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Bacteriophage particles are the most abundant biological entities on our planet, infecting
specific bacterial hosts in every known environment and being major drivers of bacterial …

Endolysin, a promising solution against antimicrobial resistance

M Rahman, W Wang, Q Sun, JA Shah, C Li, Y Sun, Y Li… - Antibiotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global crisis for human public health which threatens the
effective prevention and control of ever-increasing infectious diseases. The advent of …

Bacteriophage endolysins as novel antimicrobials

M Schmelcher, DM Donovan, MJ Loessner - Future microbiology, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Endolysins are enzymes used by bacteriophages at the end of their replication cycle to
degrade the peptidoglycan of the bacterial host from within, resulting in cell lysis and release …

Applying insights from biofilm biology to drug development—can a new approach be developed?

T Bjarnsholt, O Ciofu, S Molin, M Givskov… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2013 - nature.com
Most of the research on bacterial pathogenesis has focused on acute infections, but much
less is known about the pathogenesis of infections caused by bacteria that grow as …

Treating bacterial infections with bacteriophage-based enzybiotics: in vitro, in vivo and clinical application

KM Danis-Wlodarczyk, DJ Wozniak, ST Abedon - Antibiotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Over the past few decades, we have witnessed a surge around the world in the emergence
of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. This global health threat arose mainly due to the overuse and …

Applications of bacteriophages versus phage enzymes to combat and cure bacterial infections: an ambitious and also a realistic application?

B Maciejewska, T Olszak, Z Drulis-Kawa - Applied microbiology and …, 2018 - Springer
Bacteriophages (phages) are viruses that infect bacteria. The “predator–prey” interactions
are recognized as a potentially effective way to treat infections. Phages, as well as phage …

The mechanism of bacterial resistance and potential bacteriostatic strategies

F Zhang, W Cheng - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Bacterial drug resistance is rapidly developing as one of the greatest threats to human
health. Bacteria will adopt corresponding strategies to crack the inhibitory effect of antibiotics …

Endolysins as emerging alternative therapeutic agents to counter drug-resistant infections

VS Gondil, K Harjai, S Chhibber - International journal of antimicrobial …, 2020 - Elsevier
Endolysins are the lytic products of bacteriophages which play a specific role in the release
of phage progeny by degrading the peptidoglycan of the host bacterium. In the light of …

Bacteriophages and their enzymes in biofilm control

B K. Chan, S T. Abedon - Current pharmaceutical design, 2015 - benthamdirect.com
Although free-swimming planktonic bacteria historically have been the typical focus of
microbiological studies, the natural state of many or most bacteria is one where they instead …