5. Glossary

Thérapie phagique ou phagothérapie; phage therapy

Therapeutic or curative strategy involving the use of specially selected phages to combat mono- or multispecific prokaryotic proliferation.

Phage biocontrol or phagoprophylaxis; phage biocontrol

Preventive strategy for biological control of a prokaryotic population by adding bacteriophages specifically targeting it.

Bacteriophagic; phage solution or phage cocktail

Concentrated, purified solution with high viral titre of one or more bacteriophages used in phage therapy or phagoprophylaxis.

Antibiotic resistance

Phenomenon of bacterial resistance to antibiotics due to their massive use from the 1940s onwards and dictated by the biological selection of sometimes multi-resistant...