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I’m looking for phage typing collections of Enterobacteriaciae (eg. E. coli, Klebsiella, Salmonella) to pursue capsular variant-phage type correlation studies. Please email me at mike@aresinnovation.com or tweet @mkoeris to get in touch! Mi

CBS 60 Minutes covered superbugs this week. Buying colistin off the shelf, anyone?

Andrei Bolocan and colleagues from APC Microbiome, the University College Cork and the Teagasc Food Research Centre in Ireland have published a new review evaluating the prospects of E. faecalis phage therapy. They've categorized phages wit

A new paper (published today!) by Ann Gregory and colleagues shows identification of almost 200,000 new viral populations in the ocean (this work comes in part from the Tara Oceans expedition). The work identifies interesting new biodiversi

The same group that brought us the fascinating study on filamentous phage Pf's influence on P. aeruginosa virulence has published another study on the same phage. This time, they describe Pf prevalence (high) and implications (increased ant

Phigaro is a scalable command-line tool by Elizaveta Starikova and colleagues for phage and prophage prediction from nucleid acid sequences (including metagenomes). It can also produce annotated prophage genome maps and distinguish tailed f

A new phage product is now on the market! OmniLytics, Inc. and Certis USA have released AgriPhage™, which fights fire blight (Erwinia amylovora) in apple and pear crops. This is the first phage product approved for use against fire blight.

Micreos, a Dutch phage biotech company, secured 30 million Euro last month for its phage lysin technology. The company plans to use the funds for lysin development, and to launch its over-the-counter Gladskin product (anti-Staph aureus lysi

Here's our favourite #phagetwitter conversation from the week: John Beaulaurier of Oxford Nanopore describes a new preprint on using single-molecule nanopore sequencing to avoid assembling phage genomes. Without assembling, they got >1400 w

Phage genomes can be hard to annotate, especially with tools that aren't designed with phages in mind. Fortunately, Katelyn McNair and colleagues in Rob Edwards' lab have published a paper describing their new phage gene caller, PHANOTATE.

A new preprint by Dr. Aleksandra Petrovic Fabijan and colleagues at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research in Sydney, Australia and AmpliPhi Biosciences provides much-awaited data from their IV phage therapy treatment of 13 patients wi

A new preprint by Dr. Aleksandra Petrovic Fabijan and colleagues at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research in Sydney, Australia and AmpliPhi Biosciences provides much-awaited data from their IV phage therapy treatment of 13 patients wi

Phage genomes can be hard to annotate, especially with tools that aren't designed with phages in mind. Fortunately, Katelyn McNair and colleagues in Rob Edwards' lab have published a paper describing their new phage gene caller, PHANOTATE.

Here's our favourite #phagetwitter conversation from the week: John Beaulaurier of Oxford Nanopore describes a new preprint on using single-molecule nanopore sequencing to avoid assembling phage genomes. Without assembling, they got >1400 w

A new phage product is now on the market! OmniLytics, Inc. and Certis USA have released AgriPhage™, which fights fire blight (Erwinia amylovora) in apple and pear crops. This is the first phage product approved for use against fire blight.

Micreos, a Dutch phage biotech company, secured 30 million Euro last month for its phage lysin technology. The company plans to use the funds for lysin development, and to launch its over-the-counter Gladskin product (anti-Staph aureus lysi

An observational, open-label study assessed adjunctive intravenous AB-SA01 phage therapy in 13 critically ill patients with severe Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia, including six with endocarditis, alongside standard medical and surgical c

Andrei Bolocan and colleagues from APC Microbiome, the University College Cork and the Teagasc Food Research Centre in Ireland have published a new review evaluating the prospects of E. faecalis phage therapy. They've categorized phages wit

Phigaro is a scalable command-line tool by Elizaveta Starikova and colleagues for phage and prophage prediction from nucleid acid sequences (including metagenomes). It can also produce annotated prophage genome maps and distinguish tailed f

The same group that brought us the fascinating study on filamentous phage Pf's influence on P. aeruginosa virulence has published another study on the same phage. This time, they describe Pf prevalence (high) and implications (increased ant