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Development of direct detection methods for monitoring of therapeutic staphylococcal bacteriophages in clinical samples

MAŠLAŇOVÁ, Ivana, Lucie KUNTOVÁ, Radka OBOŘILOVÁ, Vilém SVOJANOVSKÝ, Zdeněk FARKA et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Development of direct detection methods for monitoring of therapeutic staphylococcal bacteriophages in clinical samples

Authors

MAŠLAŇOVÁ, Ivana, Lucie KUNTOVÁ, Radka OBOŘILOVÁ, Vilém SVOJANOVSKÝ, Zdeněk FARKA, Jan PREISLER and Roman PANTŮČEK

Edition

NIVB Meeting 2022, 2022

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Konferenční abstrakta

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

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Organization

Přírodovědecká fakulta – Repository – Repository

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Keywords in English

non-traditional antibacterials; phage therapy; bacteriophage; bacteriolysis; nanoparticles

Links

LX22NPO5103, research and development project. NU22-05-00042, research and development project.
Changed: 14/3/2023 03:36, RNDr. Daniel Jakubík

Abstract

V originále

The spread of drug resistant bacterial pathogens and their increased ability to survive in the environment combined with the lack of new classes of antibiotics causes the need to look for new ways to treat bacterial infections. One suitable alternative is phage therapy. For the effective treatment of infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus strains, which belong to ESKAPE group, the most promising is the application of polyvalent Twort‐like bacteriophages with broad-host range and similarly podoviruses. Although, the genomic properties of phages are well-studied, new findings are emerging on the pharmacokinetic profiling of phage drugs. The major factors relevant for the therapeutic use of phages include: i) optimal dosing, ii) duration of exposure to phages, iii) absence of genes for toxins and virulence factors in phage genome, and iv) selection of suitable phages depending on the infection agent. Currently, there is also lack of methods for capturing and monitoring bacteriophages in clinical material. The aim of our study is to develop a sufficiently sensitive method for the detection and quantification of phage particles in different types of clinical material during phage therapy based on qPCR, specially designed luminescent (upconversion, UCNPs) and metal nanoparticles4and magnetic particles.
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