Progress in Research of Bdellovibrio
蛭弧菌研究进展

Bdellovibrio is a kind of predatory bacteria that invade the other Gram-negative bacteria. It acts just like phages and it's abundant in existence. Recently, foreign researchers begin to focus on Bdellovibrio. The researches about Bdellovibrio focus on the aspects below: the taxonomy of BALOs, the genome analysis and phagocytosis mechanism of Bdellovibrio, the ecology of Bdellovibrio. Meanwhile, the phagocytosis of Bdellovibrio makes the researchers take interest in the application of using it as therapeutic agents, and lots of works have been done. They have found some problems in the application as well. Plenty of researches which are about the phagocytosis mechanism and application have to be done in the future.