Phages for Phage Therapy: Isolation, Characterization, and Host Range Breadth

Phages for Phage Therapy: Isolation, Characterization, and Host Range Breadth

For a bacteriophage to be useful for phage therapy it must be both isolated from the environment and shown to have certain characteristics beyond just killing strains of the target bacterial pathogen. These include desirable characteristics such as a relatively broad host range and a lack of other c...

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Main Author: Paul Hyman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-03-01
Series:Pharmaceuticals
Subjects:
phage therapy
bacteriophage isolation
host range
bacteriophage characterization
genome sequencing
enrichment culture
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8247/12/1/35

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