Exploring Bacteriophage Applications in Medicine and Beyond

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

Overall, the manuscript entitled "Exploring Bacteriophage Applications Beyond Medicine" provides a broad and somewhat superficial overview of several non-medical uses of phages. There article lacks gravitas. While seemingly well written, there are numerous cases within the manuscript where the material presented is not supported by the references. Spot checks on references showed the following:

[25] These studies were on cat fish fillets not stainless steel or polymeric surfaces.

[33] is on bacterial blight in kiwis not leaks.

[35] Does not include Xanthomonas or Agriphage.

[36] Is on Burkholderia phage FLC6. Though FLC6 is closely related RSF1 and RSL2, this article does not describe RSL1 as described in the manuscript.

 

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Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

The authors systematically reviewed and summarized the non-medical applications of phages. The manuscript is well written and truly helpful to the ones who are interested in this topic. I strongly recommend this work to be published, and I only have a few comments:

In Figure 2, what does the number 2 (in the center) mean? In the text, vaccine delivery was not mentioned in the section for biotechnology. Is there any example that the authors could provide in this regard?

I personally think that the paragraph of lines 77-82 is redundant.

The sentence from line 331 to 332 is incomplete.

Typos:

The title in line 174 should be (2).

Line 228-229, becomes broader

Line 263, control

Line 308, Additionally (capital a)

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

I believe the revised manuscript is improved and ready to be published.