Thanks to their bacteria-heavy ... step closer to making phage-equipped antibiotic treatments that could prevent or quickly wipe out these life-threatening post-surgery infections, even in ...

In the face of rising concerns about antibiotic resistant infections, an international group of microbial experts have ...

Phages are viruses that attack bacteria by injecting their DNA, then usurping bacterial machinery to reproduce. Eventually, they make so many copies of themselves that the bacteria burst.

An curved arrow pointing right. Antibiotics, once considered wonder drugs, are becoming increasingly ineffective against bacterial disease. Misuse of the drugs has led to bacterial resistance that ...

This study uncovers a highly conserved jumbo phage ... infections, the urinary microbiome is enriched in temperate phages with increased recombination activity, possibly facilitating bacterial ...

The results of this research, published on October 31, 2024 in the journal Nature Microbiology, pave the way for personalized phage therapies to treat antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections.