Chronic Wound
Patient Education: Chronic Wound What is a chronic wound? – A chronic wound may be defined…
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Diabetic Foot
Patient education: Diabetic foot What is a Diabetic Foot? – Diabetic neuropathy is a type…
Prostatitis
Patient education: Prostatitis What is Prostatitis? – Prostatitis is an infection or inflammation of the…
History of EPTC
A century ago, the French-Canadian microbiologist Félix d’Herelle, recognized an “invisible microbe” that he proposed was…
Cystic fibrosis (CF)
Patient education: Cystic fibrosis (CF) What is cystic fibrosis? — Cystic fibrosis is a disease…
Irritable bowel syndrome
Patient education: Irritable bowel syndrome What is irritable bowel syndrome? – Irritable bowel syndrome, or…
A credible alternative to antibiotics for treating drug-resistant infections
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The Deadliest Being on Planet Earth – The Bacteriophage
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FDA Clears Clinical Studies for New Bacteriophage Treatment for Crohn’s Disease
The research could pave the way for bacteriophage treatments for other diseases. We are one…
Superbugs Are Nearly Impossible to Fight. This Last-Resort Medical Treatment Offers Hope
On the evening of Nov. 7, Steffanie Strathdee sent out a cryptic tweet: “#Phage researchers! I…
Viruses discovered a century ago may be our best defense against a threat that could kill 10 million people a year by 2050
Antibiotic resistance — the phenomenon in which bacteria stop responding to certain antibiotics — is a…
Could gargling a virus that eats bacteria solve the SUPERBUG CRISIS?
As overused antibiotics become less and less effective, a tantalising discovery may revolutionise healthcare Steffanie Strathdee…
Addressing superbug resistance with phage therapy
International research involving a Monash biologist shows that bacteriophage therapy – a process whereby bacterial viruses…
Findings of Novel Phage Therapy That Saved Professor’s Life Published
Writing in the September issue of the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, a large and diverse team…
Phage therapy in a 16 year old boy with Netherton’s Syndrome
Netherton’s Syndrome (NS) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder, characterized by a classical triad of clinical…
Alarming rise in children’s resistance to antibiotics
For every 100 hospitalised pediatric patients across India who may need a common antibiotic called ampicillin…
Young Edmonds boy MRSA free after unusual treatment
EDMONDS, Wash. — A local family celebrating after getting a clean bill of health for their…
Superbug C. auris identified in 122 people across 7 states, CDC says
(CNN)The number of cases of an emerging and often multidrug-resistant fungus in the United States has…
Houston superbug may be a warning of nightmares to come
A dangerous strain of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is far more common in Houston than anyone knew and…
Phage Therapy Treatment – Drug-Resistant Bacterial Infection Aid?
The biggest global threat to human health is not found in pollution, war, or food shortages,…
Phage Therapy Saves Patient from Drug-Resistant Microbes
As Human Phage Therapy Day (April 27) approaches, a collaborative team of researchers led by investigators…
Phage therapy shown to kill drug-resistant superbug
The FINANCIAL — Scientists from the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Infection and Global Health have…
Phage therapy gains more ground
Phage therapy has hit newsstands once again! People who have cystic fibrosis and other chronic lung…
Misuse of top antibiotics gives rise to superbugs: WHO report
HIGHLIGHTS WHO has published a list of antibiotic-resistant ‘priority pathogens’- a catalogue of 12 families of…
Superbugs: A Rising Threat To Society & What We Can Do About Them
“It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them…
WHO: These 12 bacteria pose greatest risk to human health
(CNN) Twelve types of bacteria were deemed “priorities” in urgent need of new antibiotics, according to a…
Viruses cure cholera
Phage therapy may finally be gaining ground in the United States. Researchers from Tufts University just…
Phage find clever ways to infiltrate resistant bacteria and shuttle DNA between strains
In the gut, in the soil, and myriad other spots, bacteria reign, forming complex communities—but not…
ADVANCING PHAGE THERAPY
Bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, are the planet’s most numerous microorganisms. They kill vast numbers of…
Do you speak virus? Phages caught sending chemical messages
Viruses sense chemical signals left behind by their forebears so they can decide whether to kill…
A Woman Was Killed by a Superbug Resistant to All 26 American Antibiotics
Yesterday morning, I published a story about the silent spread of resistance against the antibiotic of last resort,…
A virus, fished out of a lake, may have saved a man’s life — and advanced science
Dodge Pond, which sits on the outskirts of East Lyme, Conn., is an ordinary New England…
Antibiotics crisis: is phage therapy the answer?
It’s been used in the former USSR for a century. Now the West is taking notice…