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Exploiting what phage have evolved to control gram-positive pathogens

In the billion years that bacteriophage (or phage) have existed together with bacteria the phage have evolved systems that may be exploited for our benefit. One of these is the lytic system used by the phage to release their progeny from an infected bacterium. Endolysins (or lysins) are highly evolv...

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Autor principal: Fischetti, Vincent A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Landes Bioscience 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3448103/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23050211
http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/bact.1.4.17747