Microbiologists and other biomedical researchers introduce the breadth of roles that bacteriophages play or can play in everyday life as causes or treatments of diseases, indicators of the potential for disease, prevention of disease, and contribute to the evolution of their bacterial pathogens hosts. Among the topics are diseases caused by phages, phages and bacterial epidemiology, phages as therapeutic delivery vehicles, bacteriophage-based methods of detecting and identifying bacteria, phage therapy of wounds and related purulent infections, and the role of phages in controlling bacterial pathogens in food. Distributed in the US by Stylus Publishing. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
