2008
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765x.2008.02458.x
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Bacteriophages and their application in food safety

Abstract: In recent years it has become widely recognized that bacteriophages have several potential applications in the food industry. They have been proposed as alternatives to antibiotics in animal health, as biopreservatives in food and as tools for detecting pathogenic bacteria throughout the food chain. Bacteriophages are viruses that only infect and lyse bacterial cells. Consequently, they display two unique features relevant in and suitable for food safety. Namely, their safe use as they are harmless to mammalia… Show more

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“…For example, bacteriophages can be used to clean hospitals or industrial surfaces, since they can destroy undesirable bacteria like disinfectants do. It is also possible include bacteriophages in foods, which will work similar to chemical preservatives [3]. Bacteriophages will wait in the food until some bad bacteria contaminate it and, like playing hide-and-seek, when the bacteriophages find their bacterial targets, they figure 3 How bacteriophages reproduce.…”
Section: Are Bacteriophages Useful For Us?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, bacteriophages can be used to clean hospitals or industrial surfaces, since they can destroy undesirable bacteria like disinfectants do. It is also possible include bacteriophages in foods, which will work similar to chemical preservatives [3]. Bacteriophages will wait in the food until some bad bacteria contaminate it and, like playing hide-and-seek, when the bacteriophages find their bacterial targets, they figure 3 How bacteriophages reproduce.…”
Section: Are Bacteriophages Useful For Us?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Phages can be used to combat pathogens in food at all stages of production in the classic 'farm-to-fork' continuum in the human food chain (García et al, 2008). Accordingly, in order to prevent transmission to humans, phages can be used:…”
Section: Phage Potential In Food Safetymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It includes: vaccination, the use of competitive exclusion, improving genetic resistance of birds and the use of probiotics, bacteriocins and bacteriophages (Chen & Stern, 2001;García et al, 2008;Joerger, 2001). factory to produce new phages particles identical to its ascendant, leading to cell lysis and consequent death of the host (Guttman et al, 2005).…”
Section: Antibiotic Resistancementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Phages have many different uses in biotechnology in addition to their use as alternatives to antibiotics. These include: 1) delivery vehicles for vaccines and gene therapy; 2) detection of pathogenic bacteria; 3) screening libraries of proteins, peptides, and antibodies (Clark & March, 2006); 4) biopreservation of food (Garcia et al, 2008); and 5) surface decontamination (Viazis, 2011).…”
Section: Bacteriophages (Phages)mentioning
confidence: 99%