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33,000: the number of deaths in Europe caused by antibiotic-resistant infections in 2015. Surprisingly, this new study found that 1/3 of these deaths were in Italy.

How much should we worry about phage-induced spreading of antibiotic resistance? This review by Clara Torres-Barceló lays out some contrasting viewpoints and data on the matter.

How big is the market for bacteriophage products? One group estimates that number to be $567.9 million USD.

A high school sci-comm intern at the Innovative Genomics Institute developed Phage Invaders, a game where you control Cas9 to defend the city of Bacterium against viral infection. Try it here! Also, Jennifer Doudna is challenging others to

Save the date! The 23rd biennial Evergreen International Phage Meeting will be held in Olympia, WA Aug. 4-9, 2019. The organizers are in the process of selecting ~20 invited keynote speakers. Nominate speakers until Sept. 30! Please includ

Phage Futures 2019 “super early bird pricing” ends today, Nov. 2 (Note: the student rate will still available until Nov. 30). Get 10% off with this code: PHDI10. Also, the organizers just announced that they're accepting poster submissions

Dr. Eleanor Jameson has an opening for a PhD student to study the role of phages in the gut microbiome at the University of Warwick. Apply here!

Benler and colleagues at San Diego State University published a new paper that shows that diversity-generating retroelements (which lead to hypervariable proteins) are present in many prophages found in bacteria that live in the human gut.

Dr. Urmi Bajpai invited phage researchers to join a newly unveiled global research consortium for promoting phage and lysin therapy: the International Bacteriophage Research Consortium. This is a collaboration between Acharya Narendra Dev C

Chen et al. published a groundbreaking new study on the discovery of a new kind of phage transduction that leads to genome hypermobility. You’ve heard of generalized and specialized transduction—now there's "lateral transduction."

Dr. Darren Smith posted a new 24-month postdoc position at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. The postdoc will study the ecology and biology of phages in the guts of pre-term infants. Apply by Nov 30, 2018.

Eric Boodman wrote a great article on the background of Adaptive Phage Therapeutics (paywall)

Pherecydes published the long-awaited results of PhagoBurn, the first blinded, controlled, randomized phage trial on burn patients.

AmpliPhi just received positive FDA feedback for phase 2 clinical trials using their phage cocktails against Pseudomonas aeruginosa (AB-PA01) and Staphylococcus aureus (AB-SA01).

Steffanie Strathdee and Urmi S. Bajpai announced a new 12-month postdoc position starting July 2019. The postdoc will work on phages in Dr. Bajpai’s lab at ANDC in Delhi. Contact urmibajpai@andc.du.ac.in to apply (fellowship application dea

Phage Futures (January 29-30, 2019) is a translational phage therapy conference where Steffanie Strathdee, Tom Patterson, the FDA, and others will discuss how we move phage therapy forward in the US. Registration is open to all - use code “

Case report from the Eliava Phage Therapy Center in Tbilisi of a 16-year-old with Netherton syndrome, atopic diathesis and serious staphylococcal infections, with allergy to multiple antibiotics. Treatment with several antistaphylococcal ph

Article by Jean-Paul Pirnay and colleagues in Pharmaceutical Research, published online on 10 November 2010, whose title frames the phage therapy paradigm as a choice between prêt-à-porter (ready-made) and sur-mesure (tailor-made). Pharmace

Pharokka is a Python tool, installable through bioconda, that annotates bacteriophage genomes easily, rapidly and consistently with standards-compliant outputs, taking under 5 minutes for an average 50-kb phage genome. Its authors built it

PhageScanner is a reconfigurable machine-learning framework for annotating bacteriophage genomic and metagenomic features, including phage virion proteins. PhageScanner: a reconfigurable machine learning framework for bacteriophage genomic