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Using a bacteriophage to successfully treat a patient infected with a drug-resistant bacteria
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Using a bacteriophage to successfully treat a patient infected with a drug-resistant bacteria

by Bob Yirka, Medical Xpress Relevant genomic and proreomic characteristics of phage M1. Genome representation of phage M1 and comparison, using a BLASTn analysis, with Slopekvirus type species KP15 (a). Each white or colored arrow represents a predicted open reading frame. In orange, genes encoding packaging and lysis-associated proteins are displayed, in yellow structural proteins...

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How genetically engineered viruses — and a rotten eggplant — prolonged a teenager’s life

In 2010, an undergraduate in Durban, South Africa, found herself scraping muck from the underside of a partially decomposed eggplant. It was, in a sense, homework. She was taking a University of KwaZulu-Natal course on viruses that attack bacteria, and a semi-rotten vegetable seemed like a good place to find them. The “enriched soil sample,”...