Synergy as a rationale for phage therapy using phage cocktails.

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Published in PeerJ on September 25, 2014

Authors

Matthew Schmerer1, Ian J Molineux2, James J Bull3

Author Affiliations

1: Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, TX , USA.
2: Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, TX , USA ; Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin , USA.
3: Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, TX , USA ; Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin , USA ; Department of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin , USA.

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