Fighting Fire with Fire: Phage Potential for the Treatment of <i>E. coli</i> O157 Infection

• Main Authors: Cristina Howard-Varona (Author), Dean R. Vik (Author), Natalie E. Solonenko (Author), Yueh-Fen Li (Author), M. Consuelo Gazitua (Author), Lauren Chittick (Author), Jennifer K. Samiec (Author), Aubrey E. Jensen (Author), Paige Anderson (Author), Adrian Howard-Varona (Author), Anika A. Kinkhabwala (Author), Stephen T. Abedon (Author), Matthew B. Sullivan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Hemolytic&#8315;uremic syndrome is a life-threating disease most often associated with Shiga toxin-producing microorganisms like <i>Escherichia coli</i> (STEC), including <i>E. coli</i> O157:H7. Shiga toxin is encoded by resident prophages present within this bacterium, a...