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SUBMITTER: Taha OA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6141743 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Taha Omar A OA Connerton Phillippa L PL Connerton Ian F IF El-Shibiny Ayman A
Frontiers in microbiology 20180911
The recorded growth in infection by multidrug resistant bacteria necessitates prompt efforts toward developing alternatives to antibiotics, such as bacteriophage therapy. Immuno-compromised patients with diabetes mellitus are particularly prone to foot infections by multidrug resistant <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i>, which may be compounded by chronic osteomyelitis. Bacteriophage ZCKP1, isolated from freshwater in Giza, Egypt, was tested <i>in vitro</i> to evaluate its lytic activity against a mul ...[more]