History of phage research and phage therapy / William C. Summers -- Phage biology / Richard Calendar and Ross Inman -- Lysogeny, prophage induction, and lysogenic conversion / John W. Little -- Bacteriophage evolution and the role of phages in host evolution / Roger W. Hendrix -- Phage ecology and bacterial pathogenesis / Mya Breitbart, Forest Rohwer and Stephen T. Abedon -- Phage lysis / Ry Young -- Lambdoid phages and shiga toxin -- Jessica S. Tyler, Jonathan Livny, and David I. Friedman -- Prophage arsenal of Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium / Lionello Bossi and Nara Figueroa-Bossi -- Virulence-linked bacteriophages of pathogenic vibrios / Brigid M. Davis and Matthew K. Waldor -- Bordetella phages / A. Hodes, S. Doulatov and J.F. Miller -- Mycoplasma phages / Kevin Dybvig, Anh-Hue Tu, and Brenda Clapper -- Mycobacteriophages: pathogenesis and applications / Graham F. Hatfull -- Phages and bacterial vaginosis / Lin Tao, Sylvia I. Pavlova and Ali O. Kiliç -- Bacteriophages encoding botulinum and diphtheria toxins / Eric A. Johnson -- Staphylococcal phages / Avery M. Matthews and Richard P. Novick -- Contribution of phages to group A streptococcus genetic diversity and pathogenesis / David J. Banks, Stephen B. Beres, and James M. Musser -- Pneumococcal phages / Pedro García ... [et al.] -- Listeria phages: basics and applications / Martin J. Loessner and Catherine E.D. Rees -- Recombineering in prokaryotes / Lynn C. Thomason ... [et al.] -- Polysaccharide-degrading phages / Dean Scholl and Carl Merril -- Phage display: a molecular fashion show / Amita Gupta, Amos B. Oppenheim, and Vijay K. Chaudhary -- Use of phages in therapy and bacterial detection / Michael McKinstry and Rotem Edgar