Additional file 1. List of reviews on phages and their relation to LAB Category Phages of LAB Year Type First author Title 1983 Review Teuber, M. The bacteriophages of lactic acid bacteria with emphasis on genetic aspects of group N lactic streptococci 1984 Book chapter Klaenhammer, Interactions of bacteriophages with lactic T. R. streptococci [2] 1988 Review Séchaud, L. Bacteriophages of lactobacilli [3] 1989 Review Jarvis, A. W. Bacteriophage of lactic acid bacteria [4] 1990 Review Davidson, B. E. Temperate bacteriophages and lysogeny in lactic acid bacteria [5] 1991 Review Jarvis, A. W. Species and type phages of lactococcal bacteriophages [6] 1995 Mini-review Sable, S. The lysins of bacteriophages infecting lactic acid bacteria [7] 1996 Review Gasson, M. J. Lytic systems in lactic acid bacteria and their bacteriophages [8] 1996 Review Schouler, C. Genomic organization of lactic acid bacteriophages [9] 1998 Review Brüssow, H. Molecular ecology and evolution of Streptococcus thermophilus bacteriophages [10] 1999 Book chapter Brüssow, H. Phages of Streptococcus thermophilus [11] 2001 Review Brüssow, H. Phages of dairy bacteria [12] 2001 Review Boucher, I. Phages of Lactococcus lactis: an ecological and economical equilibrium 2002 Review Desiere, F. Comparative genomics of phages and prophages in lactic acid bacteria [14] 2002 Review/News Moineau, S. Phages of lactic acid bacteria: from genomics to industrial applications [15] 2002 Review Bacteriophages for lactic acid bacteria [On-line] [16] 2007 Book chapter Vegge, C. S. Bacteriophage-host interaction in lactic acid bacteria [17] 2009 Review Villion, M. Bacteriophages of Lactobacillus 2010 Book chapter Rodríguez González, A. Bacteriophages of lactic acid bacteria [19] 2010 Review Quiberoni, A. Streptococcus thermophilus bacteriophages [20] Mullan, M. Reference [1] [13] [18] Category Year Type First author Title Reference 1980 Review Ogata, S. Bacteriophage contamination in industrial process [21] 1987 Book chapter Sanders, M. E. Bacteriophage of industrial importance 1989 Review 1994 Book chapter Sanders, M. E. Bacteriophages in industrial fermentation 1996 Book chapter Neve, H. Bacteriophages 2000 Review Marks, T. Bacteriophages and biotechnology 2001 Review Coffey, A. [27] Phages in relation to 2002 the industry Traditional and molecular approaches to improving bacteriophage resistance of Cheddar and Mozzarella cheese starters Review Heap, H. A. Bacteriophage in the dairy industry [28] 2004 Review Los, M. Bacteriophage contamination: is there a simple method to reduce its deleterious effects in laboratory cultures and biotechnological factories? [29] 2005 Book chapter Moineau, S. The control of bacteriophages in food fermentation [30] 2006 Book chapter Bogosian, G. Control of phage in commercial microbiology and fermentation facilities [31] 2007 Book chapter Émond, É. Bacteriophages and food fermentation [32] 2008 Review Callanan, M. J. Bacteriophages in industry [33] 2009 Review Ahn, S. I. The characteristics, detection and control of bacteriophage in fermented dairy products [34] 2010 Book chapter Labrie, S. J. Bacteriophages in industrial food processing: incidence and control in industrial fermentation [35] Year Type First author Title Reference 1987 Review Klaenhammer, Plasmid-directed mechanisms for bacteriophage T. R. defense in lactic streptococci [36] 1988 Review Sanders, M. E. Phage resistance in lactic acid bacteria [37] Category Phage defence systems Wunsche, L. Importance of bacteriophages in fermentation processes [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] Phage defence systems Bacteriophage and bacteriophage resistance in lactic acid bacteria 1993 Review Hill, C. 1994 Book chapter Klaenhammer, Bacteriophages and bacteriophage resistance T. R. [39] 1995 Review Dinsmore, P. K. Bacteriophage resistance in Lactococcus [40] 1996 Review Daly, C. Biotechnology of lactic acid bacteria with special reference to bacteriophage resistance. [41] 1998 Review Allison, G. E. Phage resistance in lactic acid bacteria [42] 1999 Review Moineau, S. Applications of phage resistance in lactic acid bacteria [43] 1999 Review Bacteriophage defence systems in lactic acid bacteria [44] 2002 Review Coffey, A. Bacteriophage-resistance systems in dairy starter strains [45] 2002 Review McGrath, S. Bacteriophage-derived genetic tools for use in lactic acid bacteria [46] 2004 Review Sturino, J. M. Bacteriophage defense systems and strategies for lactic acid bacteria [47] 2005 Review Chopin, M.-C. Phage abortive infection in lactococci: variations on a theme [48] 2006 Review Sturino, J. M. Engineered bacteriophage-defence systems in bioprocessing [49] 2010 Review Labrie, S. J. Bacteriophage resistance mechanisms [50] Forde, A. [38] The reviews addressing mostly phages in relation to LAB, and written from 1980 to 2011 were listed here. 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