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==Endolysins as a Novel Approach to Pest Control==
Pest control is an issue that is dealt with all over the globe (Irving, 1970). Despite our best efforts to control infections and other parasites that affect our agriculture, nature has found a way to try to outrun our solutions and treatments (Loessner, 2005b). Current treatments for the many kinds of bacterial pathogens that attack crops are imperfect, ineffective, potentially harmful to the environment, and sometimes just non-existent (Okabe and Goto, 1963) (Segner and Scholthof, 2007). There is a need for a new, smarter approach to pest control.  
Pest control is an issue that is dealt with all over the globe (Irving, 1970). Despite our best efforts to control infections and other parasites that affect our agriculture, nature has found a way to try to outrun our solutions and treatments (Loessner, 2005b). Current treatments for the many kinds of bacterial pathogens that attack crops are imperfect, ineffective, potentially harmful to the environment, and sometimes just non-existent (Okabe and Goto, 1963) (Segner and Scholthof, 2007). There is a need for a new, smarter approach to pest control.  

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