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ArticlePeerJ2019

Efficacy and potential of phage therapy against multidrug resistant

Swee-Seong Tang, Sudhangshu Kumar Biswas, Wen Siang Tan, Ananda Kumar Saha, Bey-Fen Leo

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Article in PeerJ, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Bacteriophage Sf14 survival under simulated gastrointestinal conditions.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  13. Design of a Bacteriophage Cocktail Active againstAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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  17. Infection and drug resistance · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Swee-Seong Tang *Division of Microbiology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Sudhangshu Kumar Biswas *Division of Microbiology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Wen Siang TanDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
Ananda Kumar SahaDepartment of Zoology, Faculty of Life and Earth Sciences, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh.
Bey-Fen LeoCentral Unit for Advanced Research Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Bacillary dysenteryMultidrug-resistantPhage therapyShigella

Identifiers

PMID30984476
PMCPMC6452847

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