The effectiveness and role of phages in the disruption and inactivation of clinical P. aeruginosa biofilms.

Biofilms of P. aeruginosa are known to be resilient forms of survival of this opportunistic pathogen, both within the host and in natural or engineered environments. This study investigated the role of phages in the disruption and inactivation of clinical P.

Novel Bacteriophages Show Activity against Selected Australian Clinical Strains of .

Multi-drug resistant (MDR) clinical strains of are the most prevalent bacteria in the lungs of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) and burn wounds and among the most common in immunocompromised hospital patients in Australia. There are currently no promising antibiotics in the pipeline being developed against these strains. Phage therapy, which uses viruses known as bacteriophages to infect and kill pathogenic bacteria, could be a possible alternative treatment.

Correction to: A metagenomic study of the rumen virome in domestic caprids.

Unfortunately, the original article was online published with error in the results section. The error is correction by this erratum.

A metagenomic study of the rumen virome in domestic caprids.

This project sought to investigate the domestic caprid rumen virome by developing a robust viral DNA isolation and enrichment protocol (utilizing membrane filtration, ultra-centrifugation, overnight PEG treatment and nuclease treatment) and using RSD-PCR and high throughput sequencing (HTS) techniques. 3.53% of the reads obtained were analogous to those of viruses denoting Siphoviridae, Myoviridae, Podoviridae, Mimiviridae, Microviridae, Poxviridae, Tectiviridae and Marseillevirus.