๐Ÿ”ฌ Phage Therapy

Application of bacteriophages, particularly to class="bap-term">animals, to either control or eradicate especially infecting pathogenic bacteria.

by Stephen T. Abedon Ph.D. (abedon.1@osu.edu)

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About this entry: Phage Therapy is one of a growing set of phage biology and phage therapy terms defined here. For more phage terms, see Abedon, S.T. (2025). Phage Therapy Annotated Glossary. Preprints.org. 10.20944/preprints202508.0347.v1

phage.org/terms/phage_therapy.html  ·  Abedon’s Books  ·  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20173633

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Phage Therapy: Application of bacteriophages, particularly to class="bap-term">animals, to either control or eradicate especially infecting pathogenic bacteria.

Discussion

<p>Note that phages can be employed therapeutically for reasons other than the treatment of bacterial infections, such as, for example, as gene therapy vectors.

For additional discussion of phage therapy along with numerous references, see phage-therapy.org.

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Abedon, S.T. (2026). Phage Terms. https://terms.phage.org  ·  10.5281/zenodo.20173633

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