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- Title
Potential therapeutic application of bacteriophages and phage-derived endolysins as alternative treatment of bovine mastitis.
- Authors
Vander Elst, N.; Meyer, E.
- Abstract
The increase in bacterial drug resistance causes major difficulties in the clinical treatment of a growing number of bacterial infections worldwide. Consequently, there is an urgent need to develop novel anti-bacterial agents to control these resistant pathogens and to complement the currently used antibiotics. Mastitis is the most prevalent disease impacting dairy cattle, and therefore one of the costliest diseases in the global dairy industry. The excessive use of curative as well as preventive antibiotics in this sector entails a real risk for the emergence of antimicrobial resistance. Moreover, these traditional antimicrobial agents are often ineffective and lead to residues in the milk, which can affect dairy product consumers. As an alternative therapeutic approach, bacteriophages and phage-encoded endolysins have been proposed and are currently (re)investigated as potential antibacterial agents against mastitis.
- Subjects
THERAPEUTIC use of bacteriophages; LYSINS; BOVINE mastitis; DRUG resistance in bacteria; ANTIBACTERIAL agents
- Publication
Vlaams Diergeneeskundig Tijdschrift, 2018, Vol 87, Issue 4, p181
- ISSN
0303-9021
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.21825/vdt.v87i4.16065