Escherichia coli O157:H7 is an emerging cause of food borne illness. An
estimated 10,000 to 20,000 cases of infection occur in the United States each year.
Infection often leads to bloody diarrhea, and occasionally to kidney failure. Most illness
has been associated with eating undercooked, contaminated ground beef. Person-to-person
contact in families and child care centers is also an important mode of transmission.
Infection can also occur after drinking raw milk and after swimming in or drinking
sewage-contaminated water.
Phage Therapy for Treating E.Coli Infections
Phage Therapy Center
Phage Therapy Center treats antibiotic-resistant infections. [More information...]
Additional Information About Phage Therapy for this Condition
Eliava Institute
List of Bacteriophages
Evergreen State College
Phage Therapy as Antibiotics
March
2000 Addendum
Hirzfield Institute of Immunology and Virology
Efficacy of Phage Therapy - Clinical Trials
The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2003
Experimental Protection of Mice against Lethal Staphylococcus
aureus Infection by Novel Bacteriophage  MR11
A series of rigorous studies into phage therapy by Smith et
al. in the 1980s made a significant contribution that led to
reevaluation of phage efficacy against infections of E. coli,
Acinetobacter baumanii , Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella
species, Lactococcus garvieae, and Enterococcus faecium in
animal models or in natural animal targets of these virulent
microbes. These, together with the present study, support the potential
of phage therapy against various bacterial infectious diseases; in
fact, successful treatment for humans has been reportedly achieved
in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
ScienCentral News
E.coli Killer
Mediscover
What
are bacteriophages?
American Society for Microbiology
In
Vitro and In Vivo Bacteriolytic Activities of Escherichia coli Phages: Implications
for Phage Therapy
Archivum Immulogiae et Therapiae Experimentalis, 1999
Phage
Thereapy - Past History and Future Prospects
Journal of Dairy Science
Phage Therapy: new methods for the potential eradication
of E. coli O157 in livestock
Intelligent Synthesis of the Scientific Literature
BACTERIOPHAGE THERAPY
Journal of Assoc Physicians India
Bacteriophage therapy: an alternative to conventional antibiotics
Medical Information
CDC
Escherichia
coli O157:H7
UC Berkeley
New
multi-drug resistant strain of E. coli emerges in three distinct regions, new UC Berkeley
study finds
Hepatology Journal
Infections caused by Escherichia coli resistant to norfloxacin in
hospitalized cirrhotic patients.
Health AtoZ
Bladder Infections and E.coli
CDC
Multidrug-Resistant
Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Associated with Persistent Diarrhea in Kenyan Children
UTMB Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Escherichia,
Klebsiella, Enterobacter,Serratia, Citrobacter, and Proteus |
