Computational models of populations of bacteria and lytic phage

K Krysiak-Baltyn; GJO Martin; AD Stickland; PJ Scales; SL Gras

Journal article

Computational models of populations of bacteria and lytic phage

K Krysiak-Baltyn, GJO Martin, AD Stickland, PJ Scales, SL Gras

Critical Reviews in Microbiology | Published : 2016

DOI: 10.3109/1040841X.2015.1114466

Abstract

The use of phages to control and reduce numbers of unwanted bacteria can be traced back to the early 1900s, when phages were explored as a tool to treat infections before the wide scale use of antibiotics. Recently, phage therapy has received renewed interest as a method to treat multiresistant bacteria. Phages are also widely used in the food industry to prevent the growth of certain bacteria in foods, and are currently being explored as a tool for use in bioremediation and wastewater treatment. Despite the large body of biological research on phages, relatively little attention has been given to computational modeling of the population dynamics of phage and bacterial interactions. The earl..

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Greg Martin Author

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Peter Scales Author

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Funding Acknowledgements

This work was funded by an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant (LP120100304) with input from Melbourne Water, South Australia Water and Water Corporation. Sally Gras and Greg Martin are supported by The ARC Dairy Innovation Hub (IH120100005). The authors would like to thank the anonymous journal reviewers for constructive comments.