Andrew D. Millard

The paper isolates and characterizes a new jumbo Klebsiella phage, BMCPR_005026, identifying it as a new species within the Alcyoneusvirus genus with limited host range.

This study evaluates how the urinary microenvironment and fluid flow affect antibiotic and phage therapy against UPEC, showing that physiological conditions reduce treatment efficacy.

The paper characterizes 45 novel bacteriophages infecting ammonia-oxidizing bacteria, revealing their taxonomic diversity and functional roles in nitrification.

This study identifies 33 distinct domain architectures of prophage endolysins from enterococci, including a novel cell wall-binding domain, to expand the diversity of potential enzybiotics against multidrug-resistant infections.

The paper estimates how many new phage species can be discovered based on existing databases and identifies changes in species abundance over time.

The paper compares INPHARED database snapshots from 2021 to 2026, showing growth in phage genomes but reduced novel species diversity and persistent host bias.

This paper develops a method to identify phage-host interactions using bacterial minicells, revealing a distinct E. coli-specific virome and novel phage species.

This study screens phage-antibiotic combinations in clinical isolates to identify synergistic interactions for treating resistant infections.

The paper isolates and characterizes four novel bacteriophages against Moraxella bovis, finding high genomic similarity among three and distinct properties in MB43.

This paper introduces plaque-2-sequence, a low-cost, high-throughput method for sequencing phage genomes directly from plaques, enabling rapid and scalable genomic analysis of phages.

This study uses in vitro models to evaluate the antibacterial effects and pharmacodynamics of a bacteriophage cocktail against E. coli strains, showing strain-specific responses and phage titre changes.

The paper examines bacteriophage diversity in COPD patients and finds it declines with disease severity, showing disrupted viral-bacterial relationships in those with frequent exacerbations.

The paper analyzes the dairy cow gut virome across life stages, finding distinct viral communities and identifying phages targeting methanogens.

The paper identifies thousands of lytic phage genomes within bacterial assemblies, expanding known phage diversity and suggesting clinical isolates may contain therapeutic phage candidates.

This study evaluates a phage cocktail's efficacy against ESBL-producing Klebsiella UTIs in mice, showing reduced bacterial burden and inflammation.

TaxmyPHAGE automates the classification of dsDNA phage genomes into genera and species using MASH and BLASTn, enabling rapid and accurate taxonomic assignment at scale.

This study investigates the role of microbial communities in decay and anatomical character loss, finding that endogenous bacteria dominate and that microbial succession does not control anatomical decay sequences.

The paper introduces a machine learning method for detecting prophages in bacterial genomes, finding more phages than existing tools while being faster.

This study compares CRISPR and marker-based methods for engineering phage T7, finding marker-based selection most efficient and type II CRISPR-Cas easier to use than type I.

This study compares dsDNA bacteriophage diversity in stabled and feral horses, finding higher richness and even distribution compared to human viromes, with no over-represented phage genotypes.