Phage-based biocontrol strategies and their application in agriculture and aquaculture

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Phage-based biocontrol strategies and their application in agriculture and aquaculture

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University of Otago

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Otago University Research Archive

Description

Meeting global food demands for a growing human population with finite natural resources is a major challenge. Aquaculture and agriculture are critical to satisfy food requirements, yet suffer significant losses from bacterial diseases. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop novel antimicrobial strategies, which is heightened by increasing antibiotic resistance. Bacteriophages (phages) are viruses that specifically infect bacteria, and phage-derived therapies are promising treatments i...

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Research paper

Research format

Scholarly text / Journal article

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Article

Date created

2018-12-17

Creator

Dy, Ron L. / Rigano, Luciano A. / Fineran, Peter C.

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/27142

Related subjects

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology / Life Sciences & Biomedicine / Science & Technology

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