BACTERIOPHAGES FOR PROMOTING HUMAN HEALTH AND ADVANCING ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

NATURALLY

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Intralytix, Inc. is a biotechnology company focusing on development and commercialization of bacteriophage-based, natural “green” antibacterial products. Intralytix, Inc. platform technology is based on using naturally occurring bacteriophages for developing a series of “green” commercial products for a variety of food safety, environmental, industrial, veterinary, cosmetic (including oral health), and human health applications. The platform technology – and phage-based products - represents one of the most, if not the most, environmentally friendly, “green” technologies for future generations of antibacterial and “probiotic” products.

BACTERIOPHAGES FOR PROMOTING HUMAN HEALTH AND ADVANCING ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

NATURALLY

Bacteriophages, or phages, are viruses that kill bacteria. They are the most ubiquitous microorganisms on earth. Phages are found in the soil, water, all fresh foods we eat and in our bodies. Because of two remarkable characteristics, phages can be used to safely and gently control disease-causing bacteria in a variety of settings:

• Phages have very potent bactericidal activity against their targeted bacteria and

• they are also very specific: a given phage will kill strains or subgroup of strains (usually within the same bacterial species) without affecting other bacterial species or mammalian cells.

Phages are “Nature’s way” of controlling bacteria on this planet, and they have played and continue to play a critical role in maintaining (via a well- balanced predator-prey relationship) microbial balance in every ecosystem where bacteria are present.  

Intralytix is using its core bacteriophage technology to develop novel natural products for use in food processing, environmental clean-up, sanitation, consumer products, and clinical settings: • Making the world’s supply of fresh foods safer to consume and by

reducing wastage due to recalls worldwide;• Use of bacteriophages in place of antibiotics and other antimicrobials in

food, food processing environments, and agricultural and veterinary applications can lead to a reduction in environmental contamination with harsh, environment-damaging chemicals and/or antibiotics.

• Use of bacteriophages in a clinical setting has the potential to reduce the development of antibiotic resistant bacteria and bacteriophage preparations can be used in human therapeutics to directly eliminate existing antibiotic resistant bacteria.

• Bacteriophages are by nature a probiotic or “phagebiotic,”and help naturally maintain a healthy balance of microflora in our environment and our bodies.

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Bacteriophages are a very powerful natural tool for managing infectious diseases (and potentially some non-infectious diseases as well) in a variety of settings, in the most environmentally-friendly manner imaginable.

Intralytix bacteriophage products are produced using state-of-the-art production technologies.