Viruses to the Rescue.

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  • Author(s): Guterman, Lila
  • Source:
    Chronicle of Higher Education. 5/21/2004, Vol. 50 Issue 37, pA16-A18. 3p. 2 Color Photographs.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      BACTERIOPHAGES; BACTERIA; SALMONELLA; MERRIL, Carl R.; COLLEGE teachers
    • Abstract:
      Discusses research being done in the U.S. on the use of viral strains called phages to fight against deadly bacteria. Information on phages; Phages developed by Carl R. Merril, chief of the biochemical genetics section at the U.S. National Institute of Mental health that attack E. coli and salmonella; Potential of phage therapy in the future according to Ryland F. Young III, a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at Texas A&A University at College Station, Colorado.