Bacteriophages: Biology and Applications - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0849313368 ISBN 13: 9780849313363

Publisher: CRC Press, 2004

Synopsis

In response to the emergence of pathogenic bacteria that cannot be treated with current antibiotics, many researchers are revisiting the use of bacteriophages, or phages, to fight multidrug-resistant bacteria. Bacteriophages: Biology and Applications provides unparalleled, comprehensive information on bacteriophages and their applications, such as phage therapy. It offers techniques, media, and methodology involved in isolating and working with therapeutic phages. Photographs, line drawings, and electron micrographs of phages are also included. With its broad approach, this book is a useful reference for microbiologists, hematologists, and infectious disease researchers.

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Review:

Several of the chapters do not have any equivalent elsewhere. . . An especially groundbreaking article by [V.A.] Fischetti describes the use of specific phage lysozymes in the control of infections by bacteria such as Bacillus anthracis and Streptococcus pneumoniae. I enjoyed reading this book from cover to cover very much. It is user friendly and affordable.

-Richard Calendar, University of California, Berkeley, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 81, No. 3., 2006

This book combines a detailed review of the technical aspects of phage research and applications with a very interesting and valuable historical perspective....an essential text for institutional purchase.
-Microbiology Today, 2005

Readable and informative....the book is approachable and contains much information of value.
-Eugene A. Davidson, PhD, Georgetown University

...this book combines a detailed review of the technical aspects of phage research and applications with a very interesting and valuable historical perspective and an overview of therapeutic, industrial and agricultural applications...a valuable resource for phage researchers and both undergraduate and postgraduate students...an essential text for institutional purchase.
-Society for General Microbiology, 2005

This new and excellent volume...may help to redress the loss of understanding of the role of phage studies in modern microbial science. ...It is clear here that much novel and exciting science of phage has been done recently and that there is more that remains to be done.
-Microbe, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2006

About this edition

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0849313368
• ISBN 13: 9780849313363
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 528
• Editor: Kutter Elizabeth, Sulakvelidze Alexander