PHAGE RESISTANCE

How is a phage cocktail prepared?

AMR, PHAGE RESISTANCE, PHAGE TECHNOLOGY, PREPARATION • One Comment

Phage cocktails are an innovative solution for treating bacterial infections. They are a mixture of...
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Temperate and lysogenic infection: Are they the same?

BACTERIOPHAGES, PHAGE RESISTANCE, PHAGE THERAPY

Lysogenic cycle Lysogenic infection An infection that results in prophage genome replication but does not explicitly involve virion...
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Are bacterial biofilms susceptible to bacteriophage attack?

PHAGE RESISTANCE • 3 Comments

The study of the pathogenesis of diseases caused by harmful bacteria aids in the development of knowledge on how to battle these microbes....
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Jumbo phage chimallin (ChmA) protein: The answer to CRISPR-Cas bacterial defense system?

CRISPR-Cas, JUMBO PHAGES, PHAGE RESISTANCE, PHAGE THERAPY, RESEARCH

Loughlin et, 2020 Jumbo phages are bacteriophages (phages) with genetic information (genomes)...
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How bacteria’s programed cell death stop phage infection spread in the population

PHAGE RESISTANCE

Programmed cell death (PCD), sometimes termed apoptosis refers to any form of cell death mediated by an intracellular death...
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Is it possible for bacteria to develop bacteriophage resistance?

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Bacteriophages are ancient viruses that exclusively parasitize bacteria. They are extremely diverse in their host range and they target...
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Can lysogenic phages be trained to enter into the lytic cycle?

GENETICS, PHAGE RESISTANCE

Have you ever come across the word phage training? Phages are viruses that eat up bacteria;...
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