Phage Therapy

The therapeutic use of bacteriophages, also known as phage therapy, viral phage therapy, or phagotherapy, may be defined as the treatment of infectious diseases caused by harmful bacteria. This treatment technique arose at the beginning of the 20th century, but following the second world war, it was gradually supplanted by the use of antibiotics in most areas of the globe. Bacteriophages are a kind of virus that attach itself to bacterial cells and then inject their genome into the bacterial cell. Bacteriophages are also known as phages. The bacterial genome is successfully replaced by the genome of the virus, which results in the cessation of the bacterial infection. Because it is unable to replicate, the bacterial cell that is responsible for the infection instead creates extra phages. Phages are only effective against extremely specific bacterial species due to their high level of specificity.

How You Will Benefit

(I) Insights, and validations about the following topics:

Chapter 1: Phage therapy

Chapter 2: Antibiotic

Chapter 3: Antimicrobial resistance

Chapter 4: Bacteriophage

Chapter 5: Colistin

Chapter 6: Multiple drug resistance

Chapter 7: Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Chapter 8: Carbapenem

Chapter 9: Polypeptide antibiotic

Chapter 10: Steffanie A. Strathdee

Chapter 11: Enzybiotics

Chapter 12: Ceftolozane/tazobactam

Chapter 13: Phagoburn

Chapter 14: ESKAPE

Chapter 15: Cefiderocol

Chapter 16: Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics

Chapter 17: Locus Biosciences

Chapter 18: Benjamin Chan

Chapter 19: Robert T. Schooley

Chapter 20: Martha Clokie

Chapter 21: Multidrug-resistant bacteria

(II) Answering the public top questions about phage therapy.

(III) Real world examples for the usage of phage therapy in many fields.

(IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of phage therapy' technologies.

Who This Book Is For

Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of phage therapy.