Open AccessPhage Therapy in the Treatment of Infectious Diseases: An Overview
Author(s) -
Mahsa Jalili,
Delsuz Rezaee,
Somaye Bakhtiari,
Farid Azizi Jalilian
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the open biomarkers journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.184
H-Index - 5
ISSN - 1875-3183
DOI - 10.2174/1875318302111010126
Subject(s) - phage therapy , antibiotic resistance , antibiotics , medicine , intensive care medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , bacteriophage , escherichia coli , biochemistry , gene
Today, we are facing the spread of antibiotic resistance in various microbial communities. Also, researchers are using new methods to replace conventional treatments to prevent chronic bacterial infections. Hence, the used of phages or bacterial contaminant particles are now used as an effective method in the treatment of many infectious diseases. Several studies have suggested that the use of bacteriophages is effective in treating some bacterial diseases. Therefore, the present study was performed to evaluate phage therapy studies against infections caused by bacterial infections. The use of bacteriophages as new targets in the treatment of bacterial diseases restricts the development of infectious diseases. Bacteriophages can provide a new perspective in the development of new drugs to reduce the rate of bacterial infections. Also, it seems more research should be done in this field and more developed techniques should be used to evaluation of new phages.