Foodborne illnesses remain a major cause of hospitalization and death worldwide despite
many advances in food sanitation techniques and pathogen surveillance. Traditional …

Background There is an urgent need to drive improvements in the efficiency and
effectiveness of food chains. The global population is expected to reach at least 9 billion by …

The host range of a bacteriophage is the taxonomic diversity of hosts it can successfully
infect. Host range, one of the central traits to understand in phages, is determined by a range …

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 …

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), one among the most common priority areas identified by
both national and international agencies, is mushrooming as a silent pandemic. The …

Bacteriocins are ribosomally synthesized peptides to inhibit food spoilage bacteria, which
are widely used as a kind of food biopreservation. The role of bacteriocins in therapeutics …

Biofilms are microbial communities characterized by their adhesion to solid surfaces and the
production of a matrix of exopolymeric substances, consisting of polysaccharides, proteins …

The practice of phage therapy, which uses bacterial viruses (phages) to treat bacterial
infections, has been around for almost a century. The universal decline in the effectiveness …

Antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections are a major concern to public health. Phage therapy
has been proposed as a promising alternative to antibiotics, but an increasing number of …

Bacteriophages, or phages, are one of the most–if not the most–ubiquitous organisms on
Earth. Interest in various practical applications of bacteriophages has been gaining …