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Known as phage therapy, it uses viruses to kill harmful bacteria in difficult-to-treat infections. Read more at ...

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A newly developed laboratory tool can, within hours, help to identify specific viruses which can be used to destroy variants ...

Nonetheless, there are several challenges that must be addressed prior to widespread adoption of phage therapy. In this section, the authors consider various strategies of phage formulation ...

Phage therapy has recently garnered significant attention as an alternative or adjunctive approach to conventional antibiotic treatments, especially against ...

A newly developed laboratory tool can, within hours, help to identify specific viruses which can be used to destroy variants of the dangerous pathogenic bacteria Staphylococcus aureus.

Their potential as antibacterial agents was appreciated almost immediately, with the first 'phage therapy' trials predating Fleming's discovery of penicillin by approximately a decade. In this ...