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Allegany College of Maryland
Corresponding Faculty Member: Steven Heninger, sheninger@allegany.edu
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Fighting Infections with Dignity
Lily Johnson, Colt McDonald

Bacteriophage cocktails have been used by scientists to treat an array of harmful bacterial infections, from E. Coli, to P. aeruginosa, to Vibrio parahaemolyticus in humans. The phages included in these treatments may contain genetic material that is DNA or RNA, single-stranded or double-stranded, circular or linear, and segmented or nonsegmented, and the targeted bacteria chosen is dependent on its membrane proteins and recognition signals. Also looked at when would the phage Dignity be a potential candidate in a bacteriophage cocktail.