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ReviewAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Bacteriophage Therapy in Companion and Farm Animals.

Laura Bianchessi, Giulia De Bernardi, Martina Vigorelli, Paola Dall'Ara, Lauretta Turin

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Review in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing 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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Microorganisms · 2026
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  16. Current understanding of theFrontiers in veterinary science · 2025
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  18. Dietary Bacteriophage Administration Alleviates EnterotoxigenicInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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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

5 authors.

Laura BianchessiDepartment of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences-DIVAS, Università degli Studi di Milano, 26900 Lodi, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2021-0967
Giulia De BernardiDepartment of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences-DIVAS, Università degli Studi di Milano, 26900 Lodi, Italy.
Martina VigorelliDepartment of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences-DIVAS, Università degli Studi di Milano, 26900 Lodi, Italy.
Paola Dall'AraDepartment of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences-DIVAS, Università degli Studi di Milano, 26900 Lodi, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8542-9476
Lauretta TurinDepartment of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences-DIVAS, Università degli Studi di Milano, 26900 Lodi, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5330-4396

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacteriophages, which are viruses with restricted tropism for bacteria, have been employed for over a century as antimicrobial agents; they have been largely abandoned in Western countries but are constantly used in Eastern European countries with the advent of antibiotics. In recent decades, the growing spread of multidrug-resistant bacteria, which pose a serious threat to worldwide public health, imposed an urgent demand for alternative therapeutic approaches to antibiotics in animal and human fields. Based on this requirement, numerous studies have been published on developing and testing bacteriophage-based therapy. Overall, the literature largely supports the potential of this perspective but also highlights the need for additional research as the current standards are inadequate to receive approval from regulatory authorities. This review aims to update and critically revise the current knowledge on the application of bacteriophages to treat bacterial-derived infectious diseases in animals in order to provide topical perspectives and innovative advances.

Indexed as

alternative antimicrobialsantibacterialbacteriabacteriophagechallengemultidrug resistantphagetherapyveterinary

Identifiers

PMID38666970
PMCPMC11047634

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