Hany Anany

TL;DR: Using the charge difference between phage heads and tails provided a simple technique for oriented immobilization applicable to a wide range of phages and allowed the retention of infectivity.

TL;DR: It is reported that morphologically different bacteriophages, active against a variety of food-borne bacteria: Escherichia coli; Salmonella enterica; Listeria monocytogenes; and Shigella boydii, will effectively physisorb to silica particles, prepared by silica surface modification with poly(ethylene glycol), carboxylic acid groups, or amines.

TL;DR: The developed phage-based materials demonstrated significant antimicrobial effect, when applied to the artificially contaminated foods, and can be used as prototypes for developing bioactive antimicrobial packaging materials capable of enhancing the safety of fresh produce and RTE meat.

TL;DR: This chapter presents recent advances in bacteriophage research and their application in the area of food safety and introduces the new developing technology that has a tremendous potential in providing means for producing wholesome and safe food.

TL;DR: It was demonstrated that as low as 40 or <10 colony-forming units (cfu) ml−1 of E. coli can be detected visually within 8 h when wild-type T4 bacteriophage or recombinant lacZ T4 organism carrying the β-galactosidase gene were used in the assay, respectively.