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Enzybiotics : antibiotic enzymes as drugs and therapeutics / edited by Tomas G. Villa and Patricia Veiga-Crespo.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2010.Description: x, 284 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780470376553 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 615.35 ENZ 2010
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.