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Reference Work Entry In depth
Clinical Trials of Bacteriophage Therapeutics
The 100-year anniversary of the discovery of bacteriophages has come and gone. After being overshadowed by the limelight success of penicillin in the 1940s, phage therapy (PT) is once again making headlines in...
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Chapter
Population Genomics of Bacteriophages
Due to their small genome size, an abundance equaling or surpassing that of bacteria, and an obligatory dependence on their host bacteria, bacteriophages are an ideal study object for population genomics. Howe...
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Open AccessMicrobial-derived products as potential new antimicrobials
Due to the continuing global concerns involving antibiotic resistance, there is a need for scientific forums to assess advancements in the development of antimicrobials and their alternatives that might reduce...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Clinical Trials of Bacteriophage Therapeutics
The 100-year anniversary of the discovery of bacteriophages has come and gone. After being overshadowed by the limelight success of penicillin in the 1940s, phage therapy (PT) is once again making headlines in...
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Article
You are what you eat
Eating foods rich in plant fiber promotes health by changing the composition and metabolic products of gut bacteria.
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On Viruses, Bats and Men: A Natural History of Food-Borne Viral Infections
In this chapter, cross-species infections from bats to humans are reviewed that do or do not use intermediate animal amplification hosts and that lead to human-human transmissions with various efficiencies. Ra...
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Open AccessEffective prophylaxis against rotavirus diarrhea using a combination of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG and antibodies
Rotavirus is a worldwide cause of infectious infantile diarrhea that claims over 600,000 lives annually. Recently, two new vaccine candidates have been developed but their efficacy in develo** countries, sti...
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Comparative genomics of phages and prophages in lactic acid bacteria
Comparative phage genomics has become possible due to the availability of more than 100 complete phage genome sequences and the development of powerful bioinformatics tools. This technology, profiting from cla...
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Comparative genomics of phages and prophages in lactic acid bacteria
Comparative phage genomics has become possible due to the availability of more than 100 complete phage genome sequences and the development of powerful bioinformatics tools. This technology, profiting from cla...
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Article
Molecular Ecology and Evolution of Streptococcus thermophilus Bacteriophages—a Review
Bacteriophages attacking Streptococcus thermophilus, a lactic acid bacterium used in milk fermentation, are a threat to the dairy industry. These small isometric-headed phages possess double-stranded DNA genom...
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Chicken Rotavirus Ch-1 Shows a Second Type of Avian VP6 Gene
VP6 protein from chicken rotavirus Ch-1 showed more than 13% amino acid differences in comparison with pigeon and turkey VP6 sequences. This difference is greater than that observed between subgroup I and II m...
