The disparate effects of bacteriophages on antibiotic-resistant bacteria

Abstract Faced with the crisis of multidrug-resistant bacteria, bacteriophages, viruses that infect and replicate within bacteria, have been reported to have both beneficial and detrimental effects with respect to disease management. Bacteriophages (phages) have important ecological and evolutionary...

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Main Author: Clara Torres-Barceló
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018-10-01
Series:Emerging Microbes and Infections
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41426-018-0169-z