{"id":49550,"date":"2025-06-08T17:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T12:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=49550"},"modified":"2025-06-10T10:46:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T05:16:18","slug":"bacteriophages-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bacteriophages-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bacteriophages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"css-9ao8nt\">\n<div class=\"ck-content\">\n<h2>Bacteriophages Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Due to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) the world is now rediscovering bacteriophages and much relevant research is ongoing in many countries.<\/p>\n<h2>About Bacteriophages<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Bacteriophages are\u00a0<strong>\u2018good viruses\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0that naturally prey on bacteria.<\/li>\n<li>They are all around us,\u00a0<strong>in the water, in the soil, in our gut, on our skin<\/strong>, etc. There are believed to be 10-times as many phages as bacteria on the earth.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike an antibiotic, which may be able to kill many species of bacteria, phages may only kill a few strains of a particular bacterium.<\/li>\n<li>All bacteriophages are\u00a0<strong>composed of a nucleic acid molecule<\/strong>\u00a0that is surrounded by a protein structure.<\/li>\n<li>The nucleic acid may be either\u00a0<strong>DNA or RNA<\/strong>, and it may be double-stranded or single-stranded.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>There are two main strategies that have been used in treating patients by using\u00a0<strong>Bacteriophages<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>One,\u00a0<strong>isolate the bacteria<\/strong>\u00a0from the infected tissue, check which phage works against it in the lab, grow more of that phage and administer it to the patient.<\/li>\n<li>These phages may come from a phage bank of one\u2019s own or in very serious cases one may even ask phage banks elsewhere in the world for help. These are natural phages.<\/li>\n<li>Second.\u00a0<strong>genetically engineered phages<\/strong>, which have been\u00a0<strong>modified in the lab to expand<\/strong>\u00a0the variety of bacteria they can kill.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Uses:<\/strong>\u00a0Phages have been used for burns, foot ulcers, gut infections, respiratory infections, urinary tract infections, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Bacteriophages FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0What are bacteriophages known for?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Bacteriophages, also known as phages, are viruses that infect and replicate only in bacterial cells.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong>\u00a0Who discovered the virus?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Dmitry Ivanovsky<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/using-bacteriophages-to-combat-antimicrobial-resistance\/article69644598.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bacteriophages are natural viruses that infect bacteria. Present everywhere, they are highly specific and far more abundant than bacteria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[747,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-49550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-bacteriophages","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}