Features:

• Provides a comprehensive overview of phage history, biology, techniques, and applications
• Includes an extensive appendix of methods for working with phages
• Offers synopses and reviews of phage research
• Contains photographs, line drawings, and electron micrographs of phages, and schematic figures of phage reproduction cycles
• Presents state-of-the-art information from leading experts on specific applications, such as phage lytic enzymes, phages for detection of pathogens, and phages as targeted delivery vehicles

Contents

1. Bacteriophage Research: Early History
2. Basic Phage Biology
3. Bacteriophage Classification
4. Genomics and Evolution of Tailed Phages
5. Phage Ecology
6. Molecular Mechanisms of Phage Infection
7. Bacteriophages and Bacterial Virulence
8. Phage for the Detection of Pathogenic Bacteria
9. Control of Bacteriophages in Industrial Fermentations
10. Phage as Vectors and Targeted Delivery Vehicles
11. The use of Phage Lytic Enzymes to Control Bacterial Infections
12. Phage Therapy in Animals and Agribusiness
13. Bacteriophage Therapy in Humans
14. Appendix: Methods

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