Biotechnological applications of bacteriophages: State of the art

Project funding by Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP, Sao Paulo, Brazil) (FAPESP Refs. No. 2016/08884- 3 (Project PneumoPhageColor) and 2016/12234-4 (Project TransAppIL)), is hereby gratefully acknowledged. Funding by Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo(FAPESP Ref. No. 2016/ 16641-3) in the form of an M.Sc. fellowship granted to Liliam Harada is hereby gratefully acknowledged. This work also received support from CNPq, National Council for Scientific and Technological Development Brazil, in the form of Research Productivity (PQ) fellowships granted to Victor M. Balcao (Refs. No. 306113/2014-7 and 308208/2017-0). Financial support to Krystyna Dąbrowska by the National Science Centre in Poland (Grant UMO-2012/05/E/NZ6/03314) is also gratefully acknowledged. The authors have no conflicts of interest whatsoever to declare.