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Chujin Ruan (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)) and colleagues published a new paper on how phage-mediated peripheral kill-the-winner facilitates the maintenance of costly antibiotic resistance.

The University of Chemistry and Technology (Prague, Czech Republic) is hiring a postdoc to develop next-generation methods for highly sensitive and fast detection of fecal contamination and antibiotic resistance for circular water managemen

University of Pittsburgh, USA is hiring a Research Specialist to perform experiments aimed at understanding phages and their infection of Mycobacterium hosts.

A recent multi-specialty survey in the United Kingdom revealed substantial demand and willingness among clinicians to use phage therapy in appropriate cases.

In this PBS Vitals video, Alok Patel (MD) and Sheena Williams (RN) explore how phage therapy could help humanity win the battle against antibiotic-resistant superbugs.

In a new opinion piece in the Boston Globe, Kevin Outterson and Henry Skinner discuss the global threat of antibiotic resistance.

In a new paper in mBio, Eugen Pfeifer and colleagues report that phage-plasmids commonly encode different and multiple types of resistance genes of high clinical importance, often in integrons.

New NIAID request for applications: Partnerships for the Development of Novel Therapeutics To Combat Select Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria and Fungi (R01, Clinical Trial Not Allowed) The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA

Pre-print: Phage Paride hijacks bacterial stress responses to kill dormant, antibiotic-tolerant cells

Paper: Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis.

CDC has some AMAZING new interactive visualizations for Antibiotic Resistance by species, geography, and indication. Great for educating people on how big the problem is. Check it out! — Contributed by Natalie Ma via Twitter

PhD position to stuudy phage involvement in spread of resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii at Norwich Medical School, Norwich

Kristen LeGault (University of California, Berkeley) and colleagues published a paper in Science on how temporal shifts in antibiotic resistance elements govern phage-pathogen conflicts. They used time-shift experiments to look at co-evolut

Aleksandra Petrovic Fabijan (Westmead Institute for Medical Research) and colleagues published a preprint on L-form switching in pathogenic Escherichia coli. They demonstrated that the osmotically fragile L-form is highly tolerant of oxidat

Apurva Virmani Johri (Vitalis Phage Therapy, India) and colleagues published a case report in Frontiers in Pharmacology on phage therapy for treatment of chronic bacterial prostatitis. Significant improvements in symptoms and re-testing of

The 27th annual Boston Bacterial Meeting is going to be held on June 10-11, 2021 organized by a diverse group of students and post-docs from several institutions. It has talks on Antibiotic Resistance (chaired by John Dekker, National Insti

This week included Giving Tuesday, and some of you likely donated to Phages for Global Health (PGH). A message from the PGH team: "Thank you so much for your gifts yesterday — between your contributions and matching funds we raised over $18

Clay Crippen (University of Georgia) and colleagues published a new paper in Frontiers in Microbiology showing that phages can lead multidrug resistant Acinetobacter isolates to release intact antimicrobial resistance determinants in vitro.

Multicopy plasmids contribute to antimicrobial resistance gene transfer, and although many don't contain mobility genes, they've been observed to contain phage fragments. Lorena Rodríguez-Rubio (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain) and colleagu

Hugo Oliveira (University of Minho, Portugal) and colleagues published a new paper in Applied and Environmental Microbiology showing that a phage tailspike with EPS-depolymerase activity, encoded by a phage belonging to a new genus within t