Phage Therapy: Past; Present and Future

• Main Author: Stephen T. Abedon (auth)
• Other Authors: Pilar Garcia (auth), Rustam Aminov (auth), Peter Mullany (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Microbiology (non-medical); lysins; bacteriophage therapy; bacterial infection treatment; biofilms; immunology; biocontrol; regulatory issues
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Historically, the first observation of a transmissible lytic agent that is specifically active against a bacterium (Bacillus anthracis) was by a Russian microbiologist Nikolay Gamaleya in 1898. At that time, however, it was too early to make a connection to another discovery made by Dmitri Ivanovsky...