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Scientists think they may have uncovered a whole new approach to fighting antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which, if successful, would help address a health crisis responsible for more deaths every year than…

A Multiwell-Plate Caenorhabditis elegans Assay for Assessing the Therapeutic Potential of Bacteriophages against Clinical Pathogens Microbiol Spectr 2022 Feb 16;10(1):e0139321. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.01393-21. Abstract In order to establish phage therapy as a standard…

PhagoDAIR is a phase I/II clinical study for the treatment of osteoarticular infections of prostheses due to Staphylococcus aureusThis Ethics Committee approval will allow patient enrollment to begin during the spring…

Bacteria-killing viruses can be used to treat antibiotic-resistant superbugs, and the approach has been tried in more than 100 people in Belgium since a 2019 change in regulations.The use of…

Global survey shows that in 2019, antimicrobial resistance killed more people than HIV/AIDS or malaria. Escherichia coli bacteria (orange) are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths attributed to antimicrobial-resistant infections.…

Covid-19 has claimed nearly 6 million lives. Antimicrobial resistance may claim 10 million annually by 2050 — and that figure is starting to look low. If we look on the bright side of the past…

After 700 days of antibiotic treatment, the infection of a 30-year-old bombing attack victim still raged. Tragically, the patient had suffered life-threatening injuries during the attacks at Brussels airport on 22…

A recently published article in Nature Communications shows that the combination of bacteriophages and antibiotics can treat K. pneumoniae fracture-related infections. Abstract A 30-year-old bombing victim with a fracture-related pandrug-resistant Klebsiella…

Dr Zemphira Alavidze, a medical microbiologist at Phage Therapy Center Phage Therapy Center was founded in 2003 by a leading group of Georgian microbiologists and polymer scientists. Their goal was to…

A multiwell-plate Caenorhabditis elegans assay for assessing the therapeutic potential of Bacteriophages against Clinical Pathogens Prasanth Manohar, Belinda Loh, Namasivayam Elangovan, Archana Loganathan, Ramesh Nachimuthu, Sebastian Leptihn Read the preprint here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.05.474866v1 Abstract In order to establish phage therapy as a standard clinical…