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New research suggests that bacteriophage therapy could counteract the risk of secondary bacterial infections, which affect some patients with weakened immune systems after being infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.A study…

Phage therapy research in the West has accelerated in recent years. In practical terms, treatment options remain reserved for compassionate cases — but of the 29 such cases reported since…

Each person's gut virus composition is as unique as a fingerprint, according to the first study to assemble a comprehensive database of viral populations in the human digestive system. An…

Antibiotic resistance is a rising threat being faced by medical professionals all around the world If no solution to the problem is found, the estimate says millions of people will…

When clinicians resort to phage therapy for patients who don't respond to antibiotics, the patients are usually very ill and time is of the essence. But the average time for…

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria affected the treatment of meningitis at a major children's hospital in Washington, D.C. This single case at Children's National Hospital raises concerns about drug resistance in the common…

It was 1917 when Felix d’Herelle, at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, first proposed using bacteriophages (or phages)—viruses that infect bacteria—as a therapy for human bacterial infections. Although used for…

Luong, T., Salabarria, A., Edwards, R.A. et al. Standardized bacteriophage purification for personalized phage therapy. Nat Protoc (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41596-020-0346-0 The world is on the cusp of a post-antibiotic era, but researchers and medical doctors have…

Will the Overuse of Antibiotics during the Coronavirus Pandemic AccelerateAntimicrobial Resistance of Bacteria? Infectious Microbes and Diseases,DOI: 10.1097/IM9.0000000000000034 The coronavirus pandemic is one of mankind’s biggest challenges of modern day.…

Case Report and In Vitro Characterization of Anti-biofilm Activity Background: Prosthetic joint infection (PJI) is a potentially limb-threatening complication of total knee arthroplasty. Phage therapy is a promising strategy to manage…