2023-09-01 07:58:50
– Did you say “phagotherapy”?
Under the spotlight, even if it remains experimental, this method could revolutionize the management of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections.
Laetitia Grimaldi
Posted today at 09:58
Identifying the “right” phage is like finding a needle in a haystack: there are 1032 different ones on Earth!
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His testimony recently made the rounds in the newspapers. In 2020, exhausted by months of hospitalization to fight a persistent bacterial lung infection despite antibiotic treatments, José-Maria Vidal lost all hope of recovery. Until phage therapy is offered (read box). The feat, made possible by a multidisciplinary team from the HUG and the University of Geneva (UNIGE), was the subject of a publication in the journal “Nature Communication”*. Particularly promising, phage therapy could become a therapeutic alternative in the case of multi-resistant bacterial infections. But what is it?
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