The Developing World Urgently Needs Phages to Combat Pathogenic Bacteria

Front Microbiol. 2016 Jun 8:7:882. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00882. eCollection 2016.

¹ Phages for Global Health Oakland, CA, USA.
² Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University New Haven, CT, USA.
³ Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Technology, Burn Wound Center, Queen Astrid Military HospitalBrussels, Belgium; Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of BukavuBukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo.
⁴ Biomedical Sciences, University of Science and Technology, Zewail City of Science and Technology Giza, Egypt.
⁵ Department of Public Health Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Nairobi Nairobi, Kenya.
⁶ Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, KU LeuvenLeuven, Belgium; Center for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research InstituteNairobi, Kenya.
⁷ Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Technology, Burn Wound Center, Queen Astrid Military Hospital Brussels, Belgium.

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Keywords: antibiotic; antimicrobial; bacteriophage; developing countries; infectious disease; phage; resistance.