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Means of combating nuisance bacteria by employing specific viral antagonists to the bacteria.
| Phage Therapy is the use viruses (bacteriophages) to kill bacteria that can be harmful to us. |
For discussion of phage therapy, see phage-therapy.org
The following video is a nice if choppily spliced introduction from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The following video is a bit short on the science and long on the drama, though there is a bit of gore to keep things interesting:
This video shows phage therapy from more of the potential commercial side of things:
Bacteriophage-mediated removal of pathogenic bacteria from foods: