Bacteriophages in Health and Disease

Paul Hyman, Stephen Abedon (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2012
CABI Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-84593-984-7 (ISBN)

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This book covers phage-bacterial-human interactions: the role and impact of phages on natural bacterial communities, the potential to develop phage-based therapeutics and other aspects in which phages can be used to combat disease, including bacterial detection, epidemiology, tracing of fecal contamination of water and decontamination of foods.

Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria. As such, they have many potential uses for promoting health and combating disease. This book covers the many facets of phage-bacterial-human interaction in three sections: the role and impact of phages on natural bacterial communities, the potential to develop phage-based therapeutics and other aspects in which phages can be used to combat disease, including bacterial detection, bacterial epidemiology, the tracing of fecal contamination of water and decontamination of foods.

hydrology, ecology

1: Phages Section I: Phages, Bacterial Disease, and Normal Flora 2: Bacteriophages as Part of the Human Microbiome 3: Diseases Caused by Phages 4: Prophage-Induced Changes in Cellular Cytochemistry and Virulence 5: The Lion and the Mouse: How Bacteriophages Create, Liberate, and Decimate Bacterial Pathogens 6: Phages and Bacterial Epidemiology Section II: Phage-Based Biomedical Technology 7: Phages as Therapeutic Delivery Vehicles 8: Clinical Applications of Phage Display 9: Phages and Their Hosts: A Web of Interactions - Applications to Drug Design 10: Bacteriophage-Based Methods of Bacterial Detection and Identification 11: Phage Detection as Indication of Fecal Contamination Section III: Phage-Based Antibacterial Strategies 12: Phage Translocation, Safety, and Immunomodulation 13: Phage Therapy of Wounds and Related Purulent Infections 14: Phage Therapy of Non-Wound Infections 15: Phage-Based Enzybiotics 16: Role of Phages in Control of Bacterial Pathogens in Food 17: Phage Therapy Best Practices

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.9.2012
Reihe/Serie	Advances in Molecular and Cellular Microbiology
Co-Autor	Andre Letarov, Sarah Kuhl, Andrew Kropinski
Verlagsort	Wallingford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	172 x 244 mm
Gewicht	840 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Mikrobiologie / Infektologie / Reisemedizin
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Biochemie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Mikrobiologie / Immunologie
ISBN-10	1-84593-984-0 / 1845939840
ISBN-13	978-1-84593-984-7 / 9781845939847
Zustand	Neuware