Bacteriophages in health and disease /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Abedon, Stephen T. (Editor), Hyman, Paul (Paul Lawrence) (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2012.
Series:	Advances in molecular and cellular microbiology ; 24.
Subjects:	Bacteriophages. Biological Therapy > methods. Bacteriophages > Therapeutic use. Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, (New March 2000) Biological Control. Diagnostic, Therapeutic and Pharmacological Biotechnology, (New June 2002) Food Contamination, Residues and Toxicology. Genetic Engineering, Gene Transfer and Transgenics, (New June 2002) Genetics and Molecular Biology of Microorganisms, (New March 2000) Host Resistance and Immunity. Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002) Non-drug Therapy and Prophylaxis of Humans, (New March 2000) Pesticides and Drugs; Control, (New March 2000) Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Humans, (New March 2000) Antibacterial agents. Antibacterial properties. Antiobiotics. Bacteria. Bacterial diseases. Biotechnology. DNA vaccines. DNA. Enzymes. Food contamination. Food safety. Foods. Gene therapy. Genes. Human diseases. Immune response. Immune system. Immunomodulatory properties. Man. Microbial contamination. Pathogenesis. Pathogens. Phage vectors. Safety. Therapy. Vaccine development. Wound infections. Wounds. Electronic books.
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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.