Interesting facts about bacteriophage

They are used in places like Georgia and Russia in therapy to cure pathogenic bacterial infections

The bacteriophage was discovered independently by the microbiologists F. W. Twort (1915) and Félix d'Hérelle (1917)

In 2006 the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of bacteriophages that attack strains of Listeria as a food additive on ready-to-eat meat products.