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The phages of staphylococci: critical catalysts in health and disease
- Source :
- Trends Microbiol
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2021.
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Abstract
- The phages that infect Staphylococcus species are dominant residents of the skin microbiome that play critical roles in health and disease. While temperate phages, which can integrate into the host genome, have the potential to promote staphylococcal pathogenesis, the strictly lytic variety are powerful antimicrobials that are being exploited for therapeutic applications. This article reviews recent insights into the diversity of staphylococcal phages and newly described mechanisms by which they influence host pathogenicity. The latest efforts to harness these viruses to eradicate staphylococcal infections are also highlighted. Decades of research has focused on the temperate phages of Staphylococcus aureus as model systems, thus underscoring the need to broaden basic research efforts to include diverse phages that infect other clinically relevant Staphylococcus species.
- Subjects :
- Microbiology (medical)
Staphylococcus aureus
Phage therapy
Staphylococcus
viruses
medicine.medical_treatment
Disease
Biology
Staphylococcal infections
medicine.disease_cause
Microbiology
Article
03 medical and health sciences
Transduction (genetics)
Virology
medicine
Humans
Microbiome
030304 developmental biology
Genetics
0303 health sciences
Virulence
030306 microbiology
Staphylococcal Infections
medicine.disease
Infectious Diseases
Lytic cycle
Staphylococcus Phages
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 0966842X
- Volume :
- 29
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Trends in Microbiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....72c47f1c25831472c1eacb5e8a693e15