Molecular Basis for Lytic Bacteriophage Resistance in Enterococci

ABSTRACT The human intestine harbors diverse communities of bacteria and bacteriophages. Given the specificity of phages for their bacterial hosts, there is growing interest in using phage therapies to combat the rising incidence of multidrug-resistant bacterial infections. A significant barrier to...

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Main Authors: Breck A. Duerkop, Wenwen Huo, Pooja Bhardwaj, Kelli L. Palmer, Lora V. Hooper
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2016-09-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01304-16