Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences (Aug 2021)

Wastewater as a fertility source for novel bacteriophages against multi-drug resistant bacteria

  • Najwa M. Alharbi,
  • Mashayed M. Ziadi

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 8
pp. 4358 – 4364

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Antibiotic resistance is a common and serious public health worldwide. As an alternative to antibiotics, bacteriophage (phage) therapy offers one of the best solutions to antibiotic resistance. Bacteriophages survive where their bacterial hosts are found; thus, they exist in almost all environments and their applications are quite varied in the medical, environmental, and industrial fields. Moreover, a single phage or a mixture of phages can be used in phage therapy; mixed phages tend to be more effective in reducing the number and/or activity of pathogenic bacteria than that of a single phage.

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