Bacteriophages very effective against infections.
Many of them such as anti-Staphylococcus or anti-Streptococcal widely used in practical medicine.
Some bacteriophages can be oncolytic and effective against cancers.
How Bacteriophages recognize and lyse cancer cells? Mechanism of action ?
As I know, these mechanisms are poorly studied for today. But it is well-known that some bacterial species/strains have surface antigene similarity with many of the human and animal tumors. On this fact, one kind of the anticancer vaccines production is based. If you want to obtain a more detailed consultation and the recent references in this field, try to connect with Dr. Gennady Didenko or Dr. Irena Voyeykova in the R.E.Kavetsky institute of experimental pathology, oncology and radiobiology, NAS of Ukraine.
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