Natural solution to antibiotic resistance: bacteriophages ‘The Living Drugs’
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Natural solution to antibiotic resistance: bacteriophages ‘The Living Drugs’
Antibiotics have been a panacea in animal husbandry as well as in human therapy for decades. The huge amount of antibiotics used to induce the growth and protect the health of farm animals has lead to the evolution of bacteria that are resistant to the drug's effects. Today, many researchers are working with bacteriophages (phages) as an alternative to antibiotics in the control of pathogens fo...
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عنوان ژورنال: World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0959-3993,1573-0972
DOI: 10.1007/s11274-014-1655-7