
PLoS ONE, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 19(4), P. e0298833 - e0298833
Published: April 16, 2024
Bacteriophage therapy is a rapidly growing field of study. Narrow host ranges, bacterial resistance, and limited antibiotic availability make lytic phages feasible therapeutic potential. Phage discovery, critical step in developing phage therapy, pathway to accessible treatment. This has always been laborious, time-consuming resource-intensive process. In this paper, we describe 96-well plate low-volume bacteriophage enrichment method with concentrated environmental sources discover isolate targeting multiple organisms simultaneously. Samples from natural water sources, wastewater influent, activated sludge were tested large volume cultures format. Each the capacity run as many 48 different combinations hosts. The time identify presence sample was 5 10 hours format versus minimum 2 days traditional method. labor expense involved also favor There some loss discovered using technique, primarily species less prevalent environment. an easily modifiable that amenable automation variety potential sources.
Language: Английский