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Dr. Christine Rohde I recently accepted to serve as Guest Editor for the Special Issue “Phage Diversity for Research and Application” of the journal Antibiotics. I would be very pleased if you agreed to contribute a research paper, or a com

Hans Duyvejonck and colleagues at Ghent University and the Queen Astrid Military Hospital in Belgium have published a paper evaluating the use of qPCR to quantify 5 phages within a cocktail. They compared qPCR to plaque assays, and showed t

Jolien Onsea and colleagues from KU Leuven, University Hospitals Leuven, and the Queen Astrid Military Hospital in Belgium successfully used phage therapy to treat four patients with severe musculoskeletal infections. Importantly, the autho

Wolbachia are bacteria that are transmitted among female arthropods, sometimes killing males of their hosts. Jessamyn Perlmutter of Vanderbilt University and colleagues have shown that a single Wolbachia prophage gene may be responsible for

Kevin Forsberg (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) and colleagues have published a new paper in eLife on a high-throughput method to find new phage-encoded anti-CRISPR proteins. The method involves expressing gene fragments from human

Kevin Forsberg (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) and colleagues have published a new paper in eLife on a high-throughput method to find new phage-encoded anti-CRISPR proteins. The method involves expressing gene fragments from human

How do bacteria in the gut interact with phages? In a new Cell Host & Microbe paper, Paola Soto-Perez and colleagues from UCSF show that Eggerthella lenta, a prevalent bacterial member of the human gut microbiota, uses CRISPR-Cas to target

Upuli Dissanayake and colleagues at the University of Florida, along with the US phage company Intralytix, have published a paper showing an E. coli/Salmonella/Listeria-targeting phage cocktail reduces E. coli O157:H7 counts in mice without

Upuli Dissanayake and colleagues at the University of Florida, along with the US phage company Intralytix, have published a paper showing an E. coli/Salmonella/Listeria-targeting phage cocktail reduces E. coli O157:H7 counts in mice without

How do bacteria in the gut interact with phages? In a new Cell Host & Microbe paper, Paola Soto-Perez and colleagues from UCSF show that Eggerthella lenta, a prevalent bacterial member of the human gut microbiota, uses CRISPR-Cas to target

An interdisciplinary research team at Georgia Tech and the Institut Pasteur has received a 5-year, $2.5 million NIH grant to study phage-immune interactions during treatment of respiratory infections with phages. The team is led by Joshua W

We've known for a while that Vibrio cholerae makes cholera toxin because of a phage, and that the phage's receptor is Vibrio's toxin coregulated pilus (Tcp). But how does the phage actually get in? Here's a new paper by Miguel Gutierrez-Rod

We've known for a while that Vibrio cholerae makes cholera toxin because of a phage, and that the phage's receptor is Vibrio's toxin coregulated pilus (Tcp). But how does the phage actually get in? Here's a new paper by Miguel Gutierrez-Rod

An interdisciplinary research team at Georgia Tech and the Institut Pasteur has received a 5-year, $2.5 million NIH grant to study phage-immune interactions during treatment of respiratory infections with phages. The team is led by Joshua W

Dr. Swapnil Ganesh Sanmukh I am Dr. Swapnil Ganesh Sanmukh, presently working on my postdoctoral project (funded my MSCA-COFUND) entitled "Isolation of bacteriophages and lytic enzymes for targeted treatment of chronic bacterial lung infect

Dr. Swapnil Ganesh Sanmukh I am Dr. Swapnil Ganesh Sanmukh, presently working on my postdoctoral project (funded my MSCA-COFUND) entitled "Isolation of bacteriophages and lytic enzymes for targeted treatment of chronic bacterial lung infect

Phage surprises all around! Emma Piligrimova and colleagues at the Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms in Russia published a paper on a new Bacillus phage that was previously thought to be a plasmid, and whic

Alfred Fillol-Salom (Univ. of Glasgow) and colleagues have uncovered how Gram-negative phage-inducible chromosomal islands (PICIs), a universal class of mobile genetic elements that impact bacterial virulence, hijack phage machinery for the

Noel-David Nogbou Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University Pretoria, South Africa Hello, I am looking for Acinetobacter baumannii bacteriophages and Pseudomonas aeruginosa phage OMKO1. This is for a research project. If you can help, plea

Before now, no virus has been reported to infect ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) from the phylum Thaumarchaeota (ubiquitous marine archaea). However, a new paper by Jong-Geol Kim (Chungbuk National Univ.) and colleagues describes the isolat