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The current push to limit antibiotic use in humans and animals has led to a resurgence of interest in therapies using bacteriophages or phage viruses to infect and destroy bacteria.…

Microphage therapy has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, but there is growing interest in the treatment for cystic fibrosis. Mallory Smith was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis,…

As issues of product consistency, standardization and specificity are being tackled, can phage therapeutics—long oversold and overhyped—finally realize their antibacterial potential? Last May, an international team of researchers and clinicians…

The first US clinical trial of intravenously administered bacteriophage therapy has received FDA approval. Physician researchers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine will conduct the trial in…

The first antibiotic was discovered by Paul Ehrlich in 1909 and cured syphilis-infected rabbits. At that time about 10% of the population of London were infected with syphilis and there…

A 15 year-old patient with cystic fibrosis and a chronic antibiotic-resistant Mycobacterial infection was treated with a three-phage cocktail. When Graham Hatfull, PhD, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh…

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Public health experts are calling for new incentives to reward companies for bringing drugs that are effective against resistant strains to market. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-03/antibiotics-aren-t-profitable-enough-for-big-pharma-to-make-more Achaogen Inc. spent 15 years racing to develop…

India must brace for the economic shocks from uncontrolled antimicrobial resistance Even though antimicrobial resistance is acknowledged by policymakers as a major health crisis, few have considered its economic impact. Now, a…

The content published here has no link with this webpage admin. This article was originally published on the Telegraph. A term greatly beloved of the Narendra Modi government is ‘surgical…