Some scientists are trying to engineer bacteriophageto treat bacterial infections in humans when theinfections do not respond to chemical antibiotics.a. What possible advantages might phage therapyhave over antibiotic therapy?b. Describe potential difficulties that would need tobe overcome for phage therapy to succeed.c. How might researchers best confront the issue thatbacterial cells could become resistant to bacteriophage just as they could to antibiotics?
Some scientists are trying to engineer bacteriophage
to treat bacterial infections in humans when the
infections do not respond to chemical antibiotics.
a. What possible advantages might phage therapy
have over antibiotic therapy?
b. Describe potential difficulties that would need to
be overcome for phage therapy to succeed.
c. How might researchers best confront the issue that
bacterial cells could become resistant to bacteriophage just as they could to antibiotics?
The viruses are considered as an obligate intracellular parasite that needed a host for their metabolic activity. Since the viruses lack cellular organelles it is considered as acellular, and they are not placed under prokaryotic or eukaryotic. The phages are viruses that are also called as bacteriophage that infects bacteria.
(a.) The bacteriophage therapy employs the bacteriophages to eliminate the bacteria. These bacteriophages have advantages over the multi-drug resistant bacteria to destroy them, where the antibiotics fail. Moreover, there is less harmful to humans, as the bacteriophages are host specific that targets only the bacteria.
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