Editorial: Bacteriophages to Fight Food-Borne Pathogens/Phages Struggling for Food Safety
In recent years, the application of phage therapy for the control of pathogenic bacteria has been experiencing a new renaissance driven by the emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria (Gordillo Altamirano and Barr, 2019). Bacteriophages are natural predators of bacteria, presenting several benefits...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/263515 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/263515 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Bacteriophages Food safety Phage therapy Biocontrol Phage cocktails http://metadata.un.org/sdg/2 End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture |
| Sumario: | In recent years, the application of phage therapy for the control of pathogenic bacteria has been experiencing a new renaissance driven by the emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria (Gordillo Altamirano and Barr, 2019). Bacteriophages are natural predators of bacteria, presenting several benefits, the main ones related to their high specificity and their harmlessness to humans, animals, and plants. The interactions between phages and their hosts play an important role in the evolutionary ecology mechanisms of bacterial resistance and phage infectivity (“antagonistic coevolution”). Some failures in the application of phage therapy are indeed due to bacterial mutations that led to resistance (Buckling and Rainey, 2002). |
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