Bacteriophages in health and disease /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2012.
• Series: Advances in molecular and cellular microbiology ; 24.
• Subjects: Bacteriophages.; Bacteriophages > Therapeutic use.; Biological Therapy > methods.; Biological Control.; Pesticides and Drugs; Control, (New March 2000); Host Resistance and Immunity.; Food Contamination, Residues and Toxicology.; Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Humans, (New March 2000); Non-drug Therapy and Prophylaxis of Humans, (New March 2000); Genetic Engineering, Gene Transfer and Transgenics, (New June 2002); Diagnostic, Therapeutic and Pharmacological Biotechnology, (New June 2002); Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002); Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, (New March 2000); Genetics and Molecular Biology of Microorganisms, (New March 2000); Bacteria.; Man.; Antibacterial agents.; Antibacterial properties.; Antiobiotics.; Bacterial diseases.; Biotechnology.; DNA.; DNA vaccines.; Enzymes.; Food contamination.; Food safety.; Foods.; Gene therapy.; Genes.; Human diseases.; Immune response.; Immune system.; Immunomodulatory properties.; Microbial contamination.; Pathogenesis.; Pathogens.; Phage vectors.; Safety.; Therapy.; Vaccine development.; Wound infections.; Wounds.; Electronic books.
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This book, Bacteriophages in Health and Disease, is an effort to provide an introduction to the breadth of roles that phages play or can play in our everyday lives. To capture this variety of phage roles in human conditions, both natural and applied, the book is divided into three parts. A brief int...

Table of Contents:

• Phages / Stephen T. Abedon
• Bacteriophages as part of the human microbiome / Andrey V. Letarov
• Diseases caused by phages / Sarah Kuhl, Stephen T. Abedon, and Paul Hyman
• Prophage-induced changes in cellular cytochemistry and virulence / Gail E. Christie, Heather E. Allison, John Kuzio, W. Michael McShan, Matthew K. Waldor and Andrew M. Kropinski
• The lion and the mouse : how bacteriophages create, liberate, and decimate pathogens / Heather Hendrickson
• Phages and bacterial epidemiology / Michele L. Williams and Jeffrey T. LeJeune
• Phages as therapeutic delivery vehicles / Jason Clark, Stephen T. Abedon, and Paul Hyman
• Clinical applications of phage display peptides / Don L. Siegel
• Phages and their hosts : a web of interactions applications to drug design / Jeroen Wagemans and Rob Lavigne
• Bacteriophage-based methods of bacterial detection and identification / Christopher R. Cox
• Phage detection as indication of fecal contamination / Lawrence D. Goodridge and Travis Steiner
• Phage translocation, safety, and immunomodulation / Natasza Olszowska-Zaremba, Jan Borysowski, Krystyna Da̜browska and Andrzej Górski
• Phage therapy of wounds and related purulent infections / Catherine Loc-Carrillo, Sijia Wu, and James Peter Beck
• Phage therapy of non-wound infections / Ben Burrowes and David R. Harper
• Phage-based enzybiotics / Yang Shen, Michael S. Mitchell, David M. Donovan and Daniel C. Nelson
• Role of phages in control of bacterial pathogens in food / Yan D. Niu, Kim Stanford, Tim A. McAllister and Todd R. Callaway
• Phage-therapy best practices / Stephen T. Abedon.