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ArticlePHAGE (New Rochelle, N.Y.)2020

Tailored Antibacterials and Innovative Laboratories for Phage (Φ) Research: Personalized Infectious Disease Medicine for the Most Vulnerable At-Risk Patients.

Austen L Terwilliger, Carmen Gu Liu, Sabrina I Green, Justin R Clark, Keiko C Salazar, Haroldo Hernandez Santos, Emmaline R Heckmann, Barbara W Trautner, Robert F Ramig, Anthony W Maresso

Abstract read
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Article in PHAGE (New Rochelle, N.Y.), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
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  3. Pathogen-Phage Geomapping to Overcome Resistance.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
    Article
  4. Article
  5. Present and future of microbiome-targeting therapeutics.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2025
    Review
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  9. Article
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  11. Phage Therapy-Challenges, Opportunities and Future Prospects.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
    Review
  12. A Retrospective, Observational Study of 12 Cases of Expanded-Access Customized Phage Therapy: Production, Characteristics, and Clinical Outcomes.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2023
    Observational
  13. Article
  14. Discovery of the First LyticPHAGE (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2022
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  15. Review
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  17. Development of Phage Cocktails to TreatFrontiers in microbiology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Austen L TerwilligerDepartment of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
Carmen Gu LiuDepartment of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
Sabrina I GreenDepartment of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
Justin R ClarkDepartment of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
Keiko C SalazarDepartment of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
Haroldo Hernandez SantosDepartment of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
Emmaline R HeckmannDepartment of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
Barbara W TrautnerDepartment of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
Robert F RamigDepartment of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
Anthony W MaressoDepartment of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.

Funding

Bacteriophage to treat multidrug‐resistant UTI in Persons with Spinal Cord InjuryI01RX002595 · VA · MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VA MEDICAL CENTER · PI TRAUTNER, BARBARA WELLS · 2019 to 2023
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RRD VA I01 RX002595
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mutation is the most powerful driver of change for life on Earth. Pathogenic bacteria utilize mutation as a means to survive strong live-die selective pressures generated by chemical antibiotics. As such, the traditional drug-making pipeline, characterized by significant financial and time investment, is insufficient to keep pace with the rapid evolution of bacterial resistance to structurally fixed and chemically unmalleable antibacterial compounds. In contrast, the genetic diversity and adaptive mutability of the bacteriophage can be leveraged to not only overcome resistance but also used for the development of enhanced traits that increase lytic potential and therapeutic efficacy in relevant host microenvironments. This is the fundamental premise behind Baylor College of Medicine's Tailored Antibacterials and Innovative Laboratories for Phage (Φ) Research (TAILΦR) initiative. In this perspective, we outline the concept, structure, and process behind TAILΦR's attempt to generate a personalized therapeutic phage that addresses the most clinically challenging of bacterial infections.

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bacteriophageBCM tailor labsphage therapy

Identifiers

PMID32626851
PMCPMC7327541

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