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Bacteriophage cocktail in drinking water suppresses systemic avian pathogenic Escherichia coli infection and pathology in laying hens.

High‑MOI phages cut APEC morbidity and mortality by 20–30%. Oral delivery worked best, removed lesions, lowered histology scores, and the cocktail stayed active without harming the cecal microbiota.

https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/02/bacteriophage-cocktail-in-drinking.html #OpenAccess #microbiology #bacteriophage #phages #chickens

#Bacteriophage cocktail in drinking water suppresses systemic avian pathogenic Escherichia coli infection and pathology in laying hens

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666517426000246 #OpenAccess #Ecoli #phages #microbiology

Microbiology in space aboard the International Space Station!!! Surely astronauts contributed enough to get authorship?! #science #MicroSky #ClinMicro #phages #UTISky

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5522ztebtekoor5efelihqhb/post/3mcfm5qyhep2c

#space #viruses #phages #mutation

"Scientists Watched Viruses Attack Bacteria in Space. Things Got Weird

'Microbes continue to evolve under microgravity, and they do so in ways that are not always predictable.

The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the most unique environments where life has ever existed, out in the low orbit of Earth. And research out today finds that bacteriophages—the viruses that prey on bacteria—can behave quite peculiarly in space.

Scientists studied how phages interacted with Escherichia coli bacteria aboard the ISS and compared them to pairs grown on Earth. The space-dwelling phages took longer to infect their hosts, while both the bacteria and viruses developed unusual mutations in response to each other and the microgravity conditions of the ISS, they found. The findings also suggest that phages in space could develop mutations useful to humans back home."

https://gizmodo.com/scientists-watched-viruses-attack-bacteria-in-space-things-got-weird-2000709619

-> #moustique tropical
-> #alimentation #ferrero

#sante #espoir #science #virus #zoonoses #anthropocene #climat #microbes #epidemie #pasteur #cancer #vaccin #louispasteur #soigner #prevention #phages #phagotherapie

Traquer l'invisible : Nos chercheurs face à la menace mondiale des virus et des bactéries
Documentaire scientifique (France, 2025) • 1h05

Marina Carrère d'Encausse rencontre des chercheurs qui traquent virus et bactéries partout dans le monde et décrypte les découvertes les plus porteuses d'espoir.

#biology #medicine #phages #EscherichiaColi

An article published in the journal "Microbiology Spectrum" reports the results of experiments based on the use of genetically modified #bacteriophage #viruses to combat strains of Escherichia coli #bacteria that developed resistance to various antibiotics. These findings offer a way to neutralize these bacteria and new insights into the interactions between bacteriophages and bacteria.

https://english.netmassimo.com/2025/11/12/a-technique-based-on-the-use-of-genetically-modified-bacteriophage-viruses-to-fight-strains-of-bacteria-that-developed-resistance-to-antibiotics/

One step closer to manufacturing #pandemics. The first successful AI-design of E. coli #phages with new properties. Applied by zealots to human pathogenic viruses ... and we have a solution to Fermi's paradox. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03055-y

Yesterday session on #Clostridia #phages and surfaces was brilliant, with personal highlights being Dr Anna Barwinska-Sendra's work on diversification of #Cdiff #S-layers, Louis-Charles Fortier's talk on how phage/S-layer specificity and Lea Huet's work in PSII S-layer anchoring. #clostpath14

How ancient viruses could help fight antibiotic resistance
#Health #Bacteria #Antibiotics #PhageTherapy #Phages #AntibioticResistance #AMR #Microbiology #Superbugs #InfectiousDiseases #BacteriaVsVirus #MedicalResearch #PublicHealth
https://the-14.com/how-ancient-viruses-could-help-fight-antibiotic-resistance/

Viromics approaches for the study of viral diversity and ecology in microbiomes.

#Virology #Viromics #Phages #GenomeResolvedMetagenomics

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41576-025-00871-w

#Phages www.linkedin.com/posts/michae...

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Defence mechanism inception!

Listeria prophages protect their host bacteria with anti-phage systems, leaving them susceptible to their own defence systems - read how this may actually be an evolutionary advantage!

#preLight from Briana Guzman, Noah Franz #ImmunobiologyUA ! ⬇️ 👀

👉 https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/a-prophage-encoded-anti-phage-defense-system-that-prevents-phage-dna-packaging-by-targeting-the-terminase-complex/

#microbiology #immunobiology #bacteria #infection #phages #prophages

#Phages (viruses that kill bacteria) are considered a potential approach to combat multidrug-resistant pathogens. However, they don't always deliver the desired results on their own. A research team at #CharitéBerlin has now demonstrated that combining phages with an antibiotic is much more effective, at least in the lab, against a form of #pneumonia caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria 💪👩‍🔬.

👉 https://www.charite.de/en/research/paper_spotlight/new_findings_on_phage_antibiotic_combination_therapy

#CharitéPaper #medicine #science #research #MedMastodon #AMR #antibiotics

Electron microscope image of a bacteriophage attaching to and infecting the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Black and white image. A bacterium runs through the picture as a gray elongated area. A small “pin with a head” can be seen on its surface (the phage). © Charité | Shailey Gale Twamley

Exciting work from the Hsu lab at Virginia Tech! They developed a cool way too knock down phage abundances to examine their role in the gut.

"A bacteriophage-conditional mouse model reveals the impact of phages within a conventionally colonized gut microbiota"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1931312825001350?dgcid=coauthor

#microbiome #microbiology #phages

The BASEL collection of E. coli #phages is limited by its host strain. @aharms485 &co use a modified host to add 36 new phages, revealing roles of O-antigen in host recognition & R-M systems in immunity @PLOSBiology https://plos.io/4jirGvX

The illustration shows all isolates of the complete BASEL collection with their Bas## identifiers. Isolates are sorted by morphotype and their current ICTV classification. The color code distinguishes phages based on morphotype and genome size. For siphoviruses, small phages (ca. 30–50 kb) are shown in red, medium-sized phages (ca. 50–100 kb) are shown in orange, and large phages (>100 kb) are shown in yellow. For myoviruses, small phages (ca. 30–100 kb) are shown in green, medium-sized phages (ca. 100–150kb) are shown in cyan, and large phages (>100kb) are shown in blue. For podoviruses, small phages (ca. 30–50 kb) are shown in violet, and medium-sized phages (ca. 50–100kb) are shown in pink.

Apply now 👉 Master thesis “Evaluating Bacteriophage-Antibiotic Combinations and Protocols for the Eradication of Enterococcus faecium in the Gut”

This project aims to identify the most effective in vitro approach to reducing and ideally eliminating E. faecium bacterial load.
More information 👉 https://www.dsmz.de/dsmz/career/masterarbeit-bacteriophage

#masterthesis #braunschweig #phages #bacteria #gut #antibiotics

The biology and ecological impact of #phages in the mammalian gut are poorly understood. This Primer explores a @PLOSBiology study that provides a glimpse into the disruptive biology of the #Hankyphages, parasites of the ubiquitous Bacteroidaceae. Primer: https://plos.io/3RukgtJ Paper: https://plos.io/41Rr22S