Phage

The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Volume 14, Issue 8, Page 686, August 2014

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The phage revolution against antibiotic resistance

Paladd Asavarut , Amin Hajitou

Phage therapy: current research and applications

Jan Borysowski, Ryszard Miedzybrodzki, Andrzej Gorski

Caister Academic Press, 2014394

£212·36. ISBN-978-1908230409

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Under pressure from nature's biological warfare, human beings have long battled against pathogens. Despite extending the average human life expectancy by up to 10 years, antibiotic therapy has repercussions by giving rise to resistant bacteria. InPhage Therapy: current research and applications , the authors give an exciting account of how the humble bacteriophage could become an indispensable source of therapeutics in the future.

Since their discovery in the early 20th ce ...