Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Institute of Biological Sciences, Department of Microbiology, Belo Horizonte, Brazil ...

With the rapid development of antibiotics in the 1930s, phage therapy -- using viruses known as bacteriophages or phages to tackle bacterial infections -- fell into oblivion. But as the current ...

Bacteriophage (phage) are obligate intracellular viruses ... Their genetic material is contained in a prism shaped head, surrounded by a protein capsid. This is connected to the elongated sheath ...