Attack of the bacteria eaters
Bacteria that cannot be treated with antibiotics are one of the greatest medical threats of our…
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Could phage therapy help combat antimicrobial resistance?
Antimicrobial Resistance killed over a million people in 2019. That figure is expected to rise to…
Western Firms Are Becoming Interested in a Soviet Medicine
It was on the golf course that Barry Rud first noticed something was seriously wrong. A…
How To Battle Superbugs With Viruses That “eat” Them
Some bacteria have evolved resistance, creating a growing army of “superbugs” against which there is no…
Anil Leidet an Chronischen Lungeninfekten. Eine Längst Vergessen Geglaubte Therapie Gibt Ihm Neue Hoffnung
Antibiotika verlieren an Wirkung. Für Schwerkranke gibt es eine neue Hoffnung, die eigentlich alt ist: die…
Phage Therapy in Georgia
Es ist „seine letzte Chance“, sagt Dieter Offermann. Der 60-Jährige fliegt nach Tiflis, Georgien, um sein…
Viruses That Could Save Millions of Lives
It may seem strange after a pandemic that has killed millions and turned the world upside…
Phenotypic and Genetic Characterization of Aeromonas Hydrophila
Abstract Phage therapy can be an effective alternative to standard antimicrobial chemotherapy for control of Aeromonas hydrophila infections…
Phage Therapies for Superbug Infections Are Being Tested in Belgium
Bacteria-killing viruses can be used to treat antibiotic-resistant superbugs, and the approach has been tried in…
Significance of lysogeny for the Metabolism of Desulfovibrio spp. Strains Isolated From Aquatic Environments of Georgia
Abstract Aims: Sulphate-reducing bacteria (SRB) are ecologically important group of anaerobic micro-organisms that can reduce sulphate to…
Phage Therapy Experience at the Eliava Phage Therapy Center: Three Cases of Bacterial Persistence
Abstract In this retrospective descriptive study we focus on cases of three patients who underwent phage…
Investigation of Salmonella Phage–Bacteria Infection Profiles: Network Structure Reveals a Gradient of Target-Range from Generalist to Specialist Phage Clones in Nested Subsets
Abstract Bacteriophages that lyse Salmonella enterica are potential tools to target and control Salmonella infections. Investigating…
Case Report: Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis Treated With Phage Therapy After Multiple Failed Antibiotic Treatments
Background: Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis (CBP) is an inflammatory condition caused by a persistent bacterial infection of the…
Interactions of Bacteriophages and Bacteria at the Airway Mucosa: New Insights Into the Pathophysiology of Asthma
The airway epithelium is the primary site where inhaled and resident microbiota interacts between themselves and…
Bacteriophage Therapy as a Potential Management Option for Surgical Wound Infections
Abstract To investigate the potential role of bacteriophages in the treatment of surgical infections, we conducted…
Bacteriophages
Introduction Even bacteria can get a virus! The viruses that infect bacteria are called bacteriophages, and certain…
Phage to Rescue
Bacteriophages are used to infect and kill pathogenic multidrug-resistant bacteria. ARCHANA JYOTI brings you a report on how…
The Perfect Predator? Inside the Tbilisi Clinic Pioneering a Radical Superbug Treatment
The laboratory, with its faded white walls and the smell of yeast in the air, seems…
Phages: Bacterial Eaters from Georgia as the Medicine of Tomorrow
Was tun, wenn Antibiotika nicht mehr wirken? Betroffene aus aller Welt zieht es nach Georgien, um…
Santé: Ces Pays Qui Pratiquent Encore la Phagothérapie
La phagothérapie, inventée il y a un siècle par un biologiste de l’Institut Pasteur, utilise des…
Chronic Wound
Patient Education: Chronic Wound What is a chronic wound? – A chronic wound may be defined…
Could Viruses Help Fight Super-Bugs?
We are slowly running out of ammunition to fight antibiotic resistant bacteria. Listener Peter wants to…
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…
‘Broadband’ Networks of Viruses May Help Bacteria Evolve Faster
Bacteria have a sneaky evolutionary advantage: their own version of the internet for swapping survival solutions.…
7 Facts About Bacteriophages
Bacteriophages are “bacteria eaters” in that they are viruses that infect and destroy bacteria. Sometimes called phages, these microscopic organisms…
A Century-Old Cure May Help Ward Off Superbugs, The ‘Global Climate Change of Health’
Pranav Johri completed five rounds of antibiotics to treat a persistent prostate problem in his early…
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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI3tsmFsrOg&feature=youtu.be
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…
Bacteriophage
A bacteriophage is a type of virus that infects bacteria. In fact, the word “bacteriophage” literally…
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: An Effective Alternative to Antibiotics?
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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,…
The Secret Soviet Virus That Helps Kill Bacteria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTwEVK7TMWI
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…
Characterization and Testing the Efficiency of Acinetobacter baumannii Phage vB-GEC_Ab-M-G7 as an Antibacterial Agent
Acinetobacter baumannii is a gram-negative, non-motile bacterium that, due to its multidrug resistance, has become a major…
A Stalin-era Alternative to Antibiotics, Developed in Tbilisi, Is Seeing International Patients
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Introduction to Bacteriophages
Bacteriophages are the most numerous viruses on Earth, and viruses are more common than bacteria, the most numerous of cellular organisms. Specifically, bacteriophages are the viruses of bacteria, that…
Antibiotics crisis: is phage therapy the answer?
It’s been used in the former USSR for a century. Now the West is taking notice…
Could viruses called bacteriophages be the answer to the antibiotic crisis?
Surgeon Gabriel Weston visited the Eliava Institute in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia to find…
Bacteriophage: Good Guys of the Virus World
Once upon a time, antibiotics revolutionized healthcare. Nowadays, however, their overuse and the rise of drug-resistant…
Antibiotics Are Dead – It’s Time to Find Another Cure
Today is the day the antibiotic era ends. British scientists announced this week that they have found…