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Enzybiotics : Antibiotic Enzymes as Drugs and Therapeutics

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: González Villa, Tomás
Other Authors: Veiga-Crespo, Patricia
Format: Printed Book
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Enzybiotics and their potential applications in medicine / Jan Borysowski and Andrzej Górski
  • Advantages and disadvantages in the use of antibiotics or phages as therapeutical agents / Patricia Veiga-Crespo and Tomas G. Villa
  • Enzybiotics as selective killers of target bacteria / Juan C. Alonso and Marcelo E. Tolmasky
  • Phylogeny of enzybiotics / Patricia Veiga-Crespo and Tomas G. Villa
  • Bacteriophage lysins : the ultimate enzybiotic / Vincent A. Fischetti
  • Bacteriophages holins and their membrane-disrupting activity / María Gasset
  • Anti-staphylococcal lytic enzymes / Jan Borysowski and Andrzej Górski
  • Membrane-targeted enzybiotics / María Gasset
  • Design of phage cocktails for therapy from a host range point of view / Lawrence D. Goodridge
  • Identifying phage lytic enzymes : past, present, and future / Jonathan E. Schmitz, Raymond Schuch, and Vincent A. Fischetti
  • Use of genetically modified phages to deliver suicidal genes to target bacteria / Lawrence D. Goodridge.