The Developing World Urgently Needs Phages to Combat Pathogenic Bacteria

نویسندگان

  • Tobi E. Nagel
  • Benjamin K. Chan
  • Daniel De Vos
  • Ayman El-Shibiny
  • Erastus K. Kang'ethe
  • Angela Makumi
  • Jean-Paul Pirnay
چکیده

1 Phages for Global Health, Oakland, CA, USA, 2 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, 3 Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Technology, Burn Wound Center, Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Brussels, Belgium, 4 Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, 5 Biomedical Sciences, University of Science and Technology, Zewail City of Science and Technology, Giza, Egypt, 6 Department of Public Health Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya, 7 Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 8 Center for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

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دوره 7  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2016