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Bacteriophage Host-Range Expansion To Include Two Strains Of Clostridium Sporogenes, Kevin Crown
Bacteriophage Host-Range Expansion To Include Two Strains Of Clostridium Sporogenes, Kevin Crown
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Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria, which have been used to treat bacterial infections in people for decades. They are also now being used as FDA approved preservatives as a means to prevent the growth of spoiling bacteria in many ready-to-eat foods. Bacteriophages tend to infect a very narrow range of bacterial hosts, some only a single sub-strain. When used for therapeutics or food treatment however, it is desirable to use phages that are promiscuous in their host range. This has led to attempts to broaden the host range of the most useful phages. By passaging phages in co-cultures of …