Bacteriophage Therapy: A Renaissance Weapon—Recent Developments and Application, 3rd Edition
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Bacteriophages".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026 | Viewed by 778
Special Issue Editors
Interests: application of bacteriophages in human and veterinary medicine; development of the methods of working with phages; interactions of bacteriophages with bacterial and non-bacterial cells
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Interests: bacteriophages
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Dear Colleagues,
Over the past century, antibiotic therapy has become the most powerful tool for combating bacterial infections. However, the era of their universal effectiveness appears to be drawing to a close. The number of new antibiotics being entering the market has steadily declined, and pharmaceutical companies have become increasingly reluctant to pursue their development due to the high risk of failure. This diminishing pharmacological treatment of bacterial infections is accompanied by an increasing number of antibiotic-resistant—and, more broadly, drug-resistant bacterial strains. Consequently, the inevitable need to identify and implement alternative strategies to combat bacterial infections has become increasingly urgent.
Bacteriophages have been used to treat bacterial infections almost since their discovery at the beginning of the 20th century. Nevertheless, with the advent and widespread success of antibiotics, phage therapy was marginalized for decades. Today, in the face of the rapidly growing number of drug-resistant bacterial strains, phage therapy re-emerged as one of the most promising alternatives to conventional methods of treatment. Moreover, research on bacteriophages now extends beyond human and veterinary medicine, increasingly reaching new fields of biotechnology.
Dr. Aneta Skaradzińska
Dr. Paulina Śliwka
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bacteriophages
- phage therapy
- application of phages
- antibiotic-resistance
- antibacterial therapies
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