Nature Communications (Feb 2017)

A cocktail of three virulent bacteriophages prevents Vibrio cholerae infection in animal models

  • Minmin Yen,
  • Lynne S. Cairns,
  • Andrew Camilli

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14187
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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There has been a renewed interest in the potential use of bacterial viruses (phages) for treatment or prevention of bacterial infections. Here the authors show that a cocktail of three phages can prevent cholera-like diarrhoea in animals infected withVibrio cholerae.