Bacteriophages (phages) are the most abundant and widely distributed organisms on Earth, constituting a virtually unlimited resource to explore the development of biomedical therapies. The therapeutic ...

Figure 2. Methodology for bacteriophage isolation: The bacteriophages recovered from environmental samples are incubated with the prospective bacterial host and used to inoculate a plaque-assay; the ...

Symbiotic interactions of microorganisms are widespread in nature, and support fundamentally important processes in diverse areas of biology that range from health and disease to ecology and the ...

Whilst the ultimate outcome of the lytic cycle is production of new phage progeny and death of the host bacterial cell, this is a multistep process involving precise coordination of gene transcription ...

Crude oil and soil samples from crude oil contaminated sites were collected from Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), Chennai, India. For the isolation of crude oil degrading bacteria, 1 g of soil ...