Phage Therapy: Current Research and Applications

Bacterial antibiotic resistance is one of the foremost public health challenges of our time. Even as efforts to identify novel antibiotics and conserve existing drugs have gained new urgency, so too has the need to investigate less-conventional antibacterial strategies. One such approach is phage therapy, or the use of viruses that infect bacteria (bacteriophages) to kill bacterial pathogens. Phage Therapy: Current Research and Applications presents a timely and comprehensive account of phage therapy's biological and historical underpinnings, empirical support, and biomedical potential.