Personalized therapy with bacteriophages of digestive diseases

Bacteriophages and Bacterial Plant Diseases

Losses in crop yields due to disease need to be reduced in order to meet increasing global food demands associated with growth in the human population. There is a well-recognized need to develop new environmentally friendly control strategies to combat bacterial crop disease. Current control measures involving the use of traditional chemicals or antibiotics are losing their efficacy due to the ...

On-Demand Isolation of Bacteriophages Against Drug-Resistant Bacteria for Personalized Phage Therapy

Bacteriophages are bacterial viruses, capable of killing even multi-drug resistant bacterial cells. For this reason, therapeutic use of phages is considered as a possible alternative to conventional antibiotics. However, phages are very host specific in comparison to wide-spectrum antibiotics and thus preparation of phage-cocktails beforehand against pathogens can be difficult. In this study, w...

Digestive Diseases and Diabetes

diabetes: Not only is every digestive organ potentially affected by diabetes, but the liver and exocrine pancreas may also have a modulating if not causal role in the development of diabetes. Physiological abnormalities associated with diabetes have been described in every part of the digestive tract where measurements can be made. This chapter focuses on the relationships between diabetes and ...

Diseases of the Digestive System

By J. W. Farquhar, M.D., F.R.C.P.E. (Pp. 28; figs. 2. 5s). Edinburgh and London: S. & S. Livingstone, 1970. THIS little book of 27 pages adequately covers what parents of diabetic children need to know to enable them to manage their child's disability successfully. However, urine testing four times daily would seem to be a standard of perfection beyond reach and counting the total number of uri...

Diseases of the Digestive Canal