Welcome to PhageLine. In this week's episode, we will discuss the isolation and characterization of phages with clinical relevance from environmental sources.

This week's papers are:

1. Isolation of a lytic bacteriophage against extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections and its dramatic effect in rat model of burn infection (Ghaznavi-Rad et al. 2022 JCLA)
2. Isolation and characterization of a lytic bacteriophage against Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Sharma et al. 2021 Sci Rep)

This episode was generated using artificial intelligence. An infectious disease researcher reviewed the contents of the episode.