Volume 18, number 2
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Bacteriophage Structure, Classification, Assembly and Phage Therapy

Nabanita Giri

Department of Microbiology, Acharya Prafulla Chandra College, New Barrackpore, Kolkata-131. India

Corresponding Author E-mail: nabanita@apccollege.ac.in

DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.13005/bbra/2911

ABSTRACT:

Current emergence of multidrug resistance and limitations in the development of the new antibiotics has proposed the problem of treating bacterial infections more challenging. This scenario may lead to the fear of failure in treating the multidrug resistant (MDR) bacterial infections and fuelled the uses of bacteriophages as an alternative of the conventional antibiotics in the post antibiotic era.So it is very much essential to know about the details of phage life cycle, assembly of phage complete structure, configuration and function of phage associated proteins etc. Although phages have been discovered a century ego, detailed study about lytic phages are gaining more interest in global fight against MDR bacterial species. This review has highlighted the basic knowledge of bacteriophage with the past and present scenario of several clinical studies targeting the MDR bacterial species. On the other hand it also discussed about the other uses of phages except human clinical trials.

KEYWORDS: Assembly; Bacteriophage; Classification; Multidrug Resistance; Phage Therapy

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