Bacteriophages from Biology to Therapy for the 21st Century
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Bacterial Viruses".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2022) | Viewed by 21480
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Phage therapy, a widely recognized alternative to fight bacteria, is becoming a credible medical approach to control bacterial infections in the post-antibiotic era. However, if phage therapy by itself will not solve the antibiotic resistance crisis, in the last 2 decades, the development of biotechnology has made it possible to refine the understanding of the mechanisms of attack on bacteria by bacteriophages and to discover properties so far unexplored and/or underestimated. The expanding our knowledge is a key to open the door to improved and innovative applications. For example, without being exhaustive, it is possible to improve the search for suitable phages to better use them to design specific cocktails and effective combinations of phages with antibiotics, and to predict resistance as well as to use the immune system.
This Special Issue of Viruses is devoted to exploring the future prospects for phage therapy players that could allow the use of phage therapy in a modern context. It will address topics related to:
- Properties revealed in recent decades (relationship with immunity, phage-host interaction, etc…)
- Efficiency of the administration methods depending the pathology (timing, doses, rate, duration, etc…)
- Benefit and opportunity of the combination with antibiotics and their control (in vitro, in vivo, pharmacology, etc…)
- Improved formulation (title, monophage or cocktail, etc…)
- Indication (depending on location, chronic/acute infections, bacteria sp., etc…)
- Principles and value of personalized/individualized therapeutic
- Practical organization (creation of specialized centers, biobanks, multidisciplinary group, etc…
- Production, regulatory, etc…
Dr. Alain Dublanchet
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bacteriophage (phage) therapy
- alternative therapy
- innovation
- combined modality therapy
- phage biobank
- regulatory framework
- coordination group
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