pf phage science

Johanna Sweere and colleagues just published a very exciting paper today in Science! A temperate filamentous phage of Pseudomonas aeruginosa dampens the immune response against P. aeruginosa, which leads to increased P. aeruginosa virulence. (More phage = increased wound severity!) The authors also show that vaccination against this phage works to protect mice against P. aeruginosa. STAT News article | Paper