Phage therapy : current research and applications

Phage therapy : current research and applications / edited by Jan Borysowski, Ryszard Międzybrodzki and Andrzej Górski.

"The emergence of bacteria resistant to multiple antibiotics has become a serious threat to public health and is considered one of the greatest challenges for contemporary medicine. Phage therapy, the use of bacteriophages as anti-bacterial agents, may offer an alternative treatment for bacteri...

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Other Authors: Borysowski, Jan (Editor), Międzybrodzki, Ryszard (Editor), Górski, Andrzej (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Norfolk, UK : Caister Academic Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Bacteriophages > Therapeutic use.
Antibacterial agents.
Bacteriophages.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Bacteriophages
Antibacterial agents
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: characteristics of phages as antibacterial agents. General characteristics of bacteriophages
  • The first step to bacteriophage therapy: how to choose the correct phage
  • Bacteriophages as drugs: the pharmacology of phage therapy
  • Fighting bacteriophage infection: mechanisms of bacterial resistance
  • Non-bactericidal effects of phages in mammals
  • Part II: Applications of phages and phage-derived enzymes as antibacterials. Overview of therapeutic applications of bacteriophages
  • Considerations for using bacteriophages in plant pathosystems
  • Bacteriophage therapy in animal production
  • The use of phages as biocontrol agents in foods
  • Phage therapy: experiments using animal infection models
  • Clinical phage therapy
  • Reintroducing phage therapy in modern medicine: the regulatory and intellectual property hurdles
  • The use of bacteriophages and bacteriophage-derived enzymes for clinically relevant biofilm control
  • Using what phage have evolved to kill pathogenic bacteria
  • Genetically engineered phage as antimicrobials and biodetectors
  • Engineered filamentous bacteriophages as targeted anti-bacterial drug-carrying nanomedicines.

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