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Phage fitness may help predict phage therapy efficacy

We isolated 6 phages from 2 environmental water sources and assessed their ability to treat Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection of Drosophila melanogaster. We found all 6 phages were able to significantly increase mean survival time (MST) of infected D. melanogaster. Although phage traits, such as adso...

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Autores principales: Lindberg, Heather M, McKean, Kurt A, Wang, Ing-Nang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4589996/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26713221
http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/21597073.2014.964081