This book covers phage-bacterial-human interactions: the role and impact of phages on natural bacterial communities, the potential to develop phage-based therapeutics and other aspects in which phages can be used to combat disease, including bacterial detection, epidemiology, tracing of fecal contamination of water and decontamination of foods.

Contributions by: Andre Letarov, Sarah Kuhl, Andrew Kropinski, Heather Hendrickson, Andrzej Górski, Daniel Nelson, Catherine Loc-Carrillo, David Harper, Donald Siegel, Chris Cox, Jeffrey T LeJeune, Larry Goodridge, Todd Callaway, Rob Lavigne