Bacteriophage treatment decontaminates infant formula
Friday, October 23, 2015 - 12:00
in Health & Medicine
A phage showed strong anti-microbial activity against a type of food-borne bacterium that often kills infants after infecting them via infant formula. Phages are viruses that infect only bacteria. The research is published Oct. 23 online in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology.