2 papers
q-bio.PE2021
Phage-antibiotic synergy inhibited by temperate and chronic virus competition
Kylie J Landa, Lauren M Mossman, Rachel J Whitaker +2
As antibiotic resistance grows more frequent for common bacterial infections, alternative treatment strategies such as phage therapy have become more widely studied in the medical…
q-bio.PE2019
Temperate and chronic virus competition leads to low lysogen frequency
Sara M. Clifton, Rachel J. Whitaker, Zoi Rapti
The canonical bacteriophage is obligately lytic: the virus infects a bacterium and hijacks cell functions to produce large numbers of new viruses which burst from the cell. These v…