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Using viruses to treat antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections
In several patients, treatment of bacterial lung infections with viruses called phages eliminated the infection.
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Host and pathogen response to bacteriophage engineered against Mycobacterium abscessus lung infection
Two mycobacteriophages were administered intravenously to a male with treatment-refractory Mycobacterium abscessus pulmonary infection and severe cystic fibrosis lung dis …
Phage Therapy of Mycobacterium Infections: Compassionate-use of Phages in Twenty Patients with Drug-Resistant Mycobacterial Disease
Phage treatment of Mycobacterium infections is challenging due to the limited repertoire of therapeutically useful phages, but favorable clinical outcomes in patients lac …
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