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    The important role of prokaryotic virus in sewage treatment

    • Last Update: 2021-12-31
    • Source: Internet
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    Clinically, phage therapy has been proven by other research teams to be an effective method against the drug-resistant superbug Acinetobacter baumannii, and the activated sludge in the sewage treatment plant is an important source of isolated phage to treat infections, saving people's lives


    A research team led by Professor Zhang Tong from the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Hong Kong recently applied a systematic metagenomic pipeline to retrieve a catalog of about 50,000 phages from six sewage treatment plants in Hong Kong


    Professor Zhang said: “Prokaryotic viruses are so small that people ignore their role in wwtp


    This is the first time in the world to explore the connection between functional microorganisms and prokaryotic viruses in wwtp


    Journal Reference :

    1. Yiqiang Chen, Yulin Wang, David Paez-Espino, Martin F.



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