Rawat, MayankSureshkannan, SVerma, RishendraTANUVAS2019-11-192019-11-192009http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810135725TNV_PRCD_2009_4Bacteriophages (phages) were used for the therapy of infectious diseases soon alter their discovery during the earlier part of twentieth century. Once antibiotics were discovered. interest in phage therapy waned in the Western and Asian countries. But countries of Eastern Europe and the former USSR continued not only to practice this modality of treatment against infectious diseases but also developed it through consistent research efforts.enVeterinary ScienceProceedings