September 2021 – PHAGElogist

Phage-antibiotic combination to treat drug-resistant infections

Researchers from the Université de Montpellier, France, and the University of Pittsburgh, have published a study (“Mycobacteriophage-antibiotic therapy promotes enhanced clearance of drug-resistant Mycobacterium abscessus”) in Disease Models & Mechanisms that describes the antibacterial…

Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria in Fish: Treat with Phage Therapy

Scientists using phage therapy — specifically a bacteriophage they dubbed “Muddy” — successfully treated an infection by an antibiotic-resistant strain of Mycobacterium abscessus bacteria in a zebrafish model of cystic fibrosis (CF). For five…

Research Scholarship in Phage Therapy

A postgraduate research scholarship at The University of Sydney $140,000 scholarship for a PhD student to undertake research in phage therapy for intracellular pathogens. How to apply Apply here. Benefits A…

Antimicrobial Resistance Is Futile Without IP

In 1918, the world was swept by a terrifying novel influenza pandemic that killed about 50 million people.1 The primary cause of death, however, was not the influenza virus itself…

Phage therapy success depends on emerging resistance

Since just before the turn of the 20th century, bacteriophage’s antibacterial activity was detected in the waters of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers. English bacteriologist Ernest Hankin had written about the…