Directed in Vitro Evolution of Therapeutic Bacteriophages: The Appelmans Protocol

The ‘Appelmans protocol’ is used by Eastern European researchers to generate therapeutic phages with novel lytic host ranges. Phage cocktails are iteratively grown on a suite of mostly refractory bacterial isolates until the evolved cocktail can lyse the phage-resistant strains....

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Main Authors: Ben H. Burrowes, Ian J. Molineux, Joe A. Fralick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-03-01
Series:Viruses
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/11/3/241