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Bacteriophages --- Bacteriophages --- genomes --- genomes --- gene expression --- gene expression --- DNA fingerprinting --- DNA fingerprinting --- Bacteria --- Bacteria --- chromosome translocation --- chromosome translocation --- Xylella --- Xylella --- Streptococcus pyogenes --- Lactobacillus johnsonii --- Prophage --- Streptococcus pyogenes --- Lactobacillus johnsonii --- Prophage

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There is talk of an upcoming antibiotic armageddon, with untreatable post-operative infections, and similarly untreatable complications after chemotherapy. Indeed, the now famous “O’Neill Report” (https://amr-review.org/) suggests that, by 2050, more people might die from antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections than from cancer. While we are still learning all the subtle drivers of antibiotic resistance, it seems increasingly clear that we need to take a “one health” approach, curtailing the use of antibiotics in both human and veterinary medicine. However, there are no new classes of antibiotics on our horizon. Maybe something that has been around “forever” can come to our rescue—bacteriophages! Nevertheless, it is also necessary to do things differently, and use these new antimicrobials appropriately. Therefore, an in-depth study of bacteriophage biology and case-by-case applications might be required. Whilst by no means comprehensive, this book does cover some of the many topics related to bacteriophages as antimicrobials, including their use in human therapy and aquaculture. It also explores the potential use of phage endolysins as substitutes of antibiotics in two sectors where there is an urgent need—human therapy and the agro-food industry. Last but not least, there is an excellent perspective article on phage therapy implementation.

Medicine --- bacteriophages --- dairy industry --- pathogens --- lactic acid bacteria --- fermentation failure --- biofilms --- antimicrobial resistance --- antimicrobials --- lysins --- horizontal gene transfer, transduction --- biofilm --- phage therapy --- resistance --- bacteriophage --- models --- agent based --- mass action --- bacterial phage resistance --- regression modeling --- MRSA --- Clostridium difficile --- Clostridium difficile infection --- microbiome --- in vitro fermentation model --- marine vibrios --- biological control --- aquaculture --- interactions --- vibriosis --- Aeromonas hydrophila --- Motile Aeromonas Septicemia --- MAS --- multiple-antibiotic-resistance --- striped catfish (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus) --- endolysin --- antibiotics --- one health --- protein engineering --- Aeromonas salmonicida --- furunculosis --- phage-resistant mutants --- proteins --- infrared spectroscopy --- lysin --- lytic enzyme --- peptidoglycan hydrolase --- antimicrobial --- antibacterial --- antibiotic resistance --- bacteriophage therapy --- Nagoya Protocol --- CRISPR CAS --- phage isolation --- phage resistance --- Staphylococcus --- Kayvirus --- Vibrio anguillarum --- fish larvae --- challenge trials --- phage display --- enzybiotics --- Bacteriophages --- diabetic foot ulcer --- osteomyelitis --- Staphylococcus aureus --- Antibiotic-resistant bacteria --- lysogenic conversion --- prophage induction --- read recruitment --- shiga toxin --- American Foulbrood --- phage --- Paenibacillus larvae --- Brevibacillus laterosporus --- treatment --- safety --- bystander phage therapy --- Mycobacterium smegmatis --- mycobacteriophages --- directed evolution --- PlyC CHAP --- protein net charge --- CBD-independent --- FoldX --- STEC-specific bacteriophage --- whole genome sequencing --- STEC O145 strains --- antimicrobial agent --- Pseudomonas aeruginosa --- dual-species --- antibiotic --- synergy --- simultaneous --- sequential --- microbiome therapy --- evolution --- bacteriophages --- dairy industry --- pathogens --- lactic acid bacteria --- fermentation failure --- biofilms --- antimicrobial resistance --- antimicrobials --- lysins --- horizontal gene transfer, transduction --- biofilm --- phage therapy --- resistance --- bacteriophage --- models --- agent based --- mass action --- bacterial phage resistance --- regression modeling --- MRSA --- Clostridium difficile --- Clostridium difficile infection --- microbiome --- in vitro fermentation model --- marine vibrios --- biological control --- aquaculture --- interactions --- vibriosis --- Aeromonas hydrophila --- Motile Aeromonas Septicemia --- MAS --- multiple-antibiotic-resistance --- striped catfish (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus) --- endolysin --- antibiotics --- one health --- protein engineering --- Aeromonas salmonicida --- furunculosis --- phage-resistant mutants --- proteins --- infrared spectroscopy --- lysin --- lytic enzyme --- peptidoglycan hydrolase --- antimicrobial --- antibacterial --- antibiotic resistance --- bacteriophage therapy --- Nagoya Protocol --- CRISPR CAS --- phage isolation --- phage resistance --- Staphylococcus --- Kayvirus --- Vibrio anguillarum --- fish larvae --- challenge trials --- phage display --- enzybiotics --- Bacteriophages --- diabetic foot ulcer --- osteomyelitis --- Staphylococcus aureus --- Antibiotic-resistant bacteria --- lysogenic conversion --- prophage induction --- read recruitment --- shiga toxin --- American Foulbrood --- phage --- Paenibacillus larvae --- Brevibacillus laterosporus --- treatment --- safety --- bystander phage therapy --- Mycobacterium smegmatis --- mycobacteriophages --- directed evolution --- PlyC CHAP --- protein net charge --- CBD-independent --- FoldX --- STEC-specific bacteriophage --- whole genome sequencing --- STEC O145 strains --- antimicrobial agent --- Pseudomonas aeruginosa --- dual-species --- antibiotic --- synergy --- simultaneous --- sequential --- microbiome therapy --- evolution

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Viruses are microscopic agents that exist worldwide and are present in humans, animals, plants, and other living organisms in which they can cause devastating diseases. However, the advances of biotechnology and next-generation sequencing technologies have accelerated novel virus discovery, identification, sequencing, and manipulation, showing that they present unique characteristics that place them as valuable tools for a wide variety of biotechnological applications. Many applications of viruses have been used for agricultural purposes, namely concerning plant breeding and plant protection. Nevertheless, it is interesting to mention that plants have also many advantages to be used in vaccine production, such as the low cost and low risks they entail, showing once more the versatility of the use of viruses in biotechnology. Although it will obviously never be ignored that viruses are responsible for devastating diseases, it is clear that the more they are studied, the more possibilities they offer to us. They are now on the front line of the most revolutionizing techniques in several fields, providing advances that would not be possible without their existence. In this book there are presented studies that demonstrate the work developed using viruses in biotechnology. These studies were brought by experts that focus on the development and applications of many viruses in several fields, such as agriculture, the pharmaceutical industry, and medicine.

Technology: general issues --- Bacteriophage --- Salmonella --- biocontrol --- comparative genomics --- phage diversity --- grapevine --- apple latent spherical virus vector --- virus-induced flowering --- reduced generation time --- breeding of grapevine --- virus elimination --- Newcastle disease virus --- reverse genetics --- vaccines --- infectious diseases --- cancer --- porcine epidemic diarrhea virus --- VLP --- chemokines --- pig --- vaccine --- SARS-CoV-2 --- COVID-19 --- phages --- CRISPR --- viruses --- prevention --- diagnosis --- treatment --- adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector --- jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus (JSRV) --- LTR --- enhancer --- transduction --- viral vaccines --- cancers --- COVID-19 vaccines --- self-replicating RNA vectors --- DNA-based vaccines --- RNA-based vaccines --- plant virus --- viroid --- viral vector --- virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) --- CRISPR/Cas9 --- genome editing --- carotenoid biosynthesis --- circular RNA --- infectious bursal disease virus --- immunization --- recombinant Lactococcus lactis --- variant strain --- baculovirus --- insect cells --- bacmid --- Tn7 --- genome stability --- protein expression --- chikungunya virus --- VLPs --- bioreactor --- CRISPR/Cas systems --- viral vectors --- gene editing --- plant genome engineering --- viral resistance --- adeno-associated virus --- AAV --- cancer gene therapy --- prophage --- hydrothermal vent --- Hypnocyclicus thermotrophus --- lytic cassette --- Escherichia coli --- heterologous expression --- codon optimization --- codon harmonization --- expression vectors --- aspect ratio --- VNPs --- TMV --- PVX --- CPMV --- geminivirus --- theranostics --- CRISPR-cas9 --- clodronate --- macrophage --- gene therapy --- gene expression --- nanotechnology

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Viruses are microscopic agents that exist worldwide and are present in humans, animals, plants, and other living organisms in which they can cause devastating diseases. However, the advances of biotechnology and next-generation sequencing technologies have accelerated novel virus discovery, identification, sequencing, and manipulation, showing that they present unique characteristics that place them as valuable tools for a wide variety of biotechnological applications. Many applications of viruses have been used for agricultural purposes, namely concerning plant breeding and plant protection. Nevertheless, it is interesting to mention that plants have also many advantages to be used in vaccine production, such as the low cost and low risks they entail, showing once more the versatility of the use of viruses in biotechnology. Although it will obviously never be ignored that viruses are responsible for devastating diseases, it is clear that the more they are studied, the more possibilities they offer to us. They are now on the front line of the most revolutionizing techniques in several fields, providing advances that would not be possible without their existence. In this book there are presented studies that demonstrate the work developed using viruses in biotechnology. These studies were brought by experts that focus on the development and applications of many viruses in several fields, such as agriculture, the pharmaceutical industry, and medicine.

Bacteriophage --- Salmonella --- biocontrol --- comparative genomics --- phage diversity --- grapevine --- apple latent spherical virus vector --- virus-induced flowering --- reduced generation time --- breeding of grapevine --- virus elimination --- Newcastle disease virus --- reverse genetics --- vaccines --- infectious diseases --- cancer --- porcine epidemic diarrhea virus --- VLP --- chemokines --- pig --- vaccine --- SARS-CoV-2 --- COVID-19 --- phages --- CRISPR --- viruses --- prevention --- diagnosis --- treatment --- adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector --- jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus (JSRV) --- LTR --- enhancer --- transduction --- viral vaccines --- cancers --- COVID-19 vaccines --- self-replicating RNA vectors --- DNA-based vaccines --- RNA-based vaccines --- plant virus --- viroid --- viral vector --- virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) --- CRISPR/Cas9 --- genome editing --- carotenoid biosynthesis --- circular RNA --- infectious bursal disease virus --- immunization --- recombinant Lactococcus lactis --- variant strain --- baculovirus --- insect cells --- bacmid --- Tn7 --- genome stability --- protein expression --- chikungunya virus --- VLPs --- bioreactor --- CRISPR/Cas systems --- viral vectors --- gene editing --- plant genome engineering --- viral resistance --- adeno-associated virus --- AAV --- cancer gene therapy --- prophage --- hydrothermal vent --- Hypnocyclicus thermotrophus --- lytic cassette --- Escherichia coli --- heterologous expression --- codon optimization --- codon harmonization --- expression vectors --- aspect ratio --- VNPs --- TMV --- PVX --- CPMV --- geminivirus --- theranostics --- CRISPR-cas9 --- clodronate --- macrophage --- gene therapy --- gene expression --- nanotechnology