Antibiotic resistance: how “phages” saved the Geneva patient
Until November 24, a global awareness week is dedicated to antimicrobial resistance. While this antibiotic resistance constitutes a real public ...
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Antibiotic resistance: a patient cured by bacteria-killing viruses
A 41-year-old patient with a recurrent antibiotic-resistant lung infection was cured with phage therapy, a treatment using viruses that prey ...
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Antibiotic resistance: saved from amputation thanks to phage therapy
An ancestral care technique, phage therapy, came to the end of a staphylococcus aureus which threatened a French patient with ...
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Phagotherapy: 2 patients successfully treated in Lyon
As the patients faced treatment failures, phage therapy overcame the infection and resulted in complete recovery. In medicine, you sometimes ...
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Phagotherapy: a patient rescued from a deadly infection
Tom Patterson was infected with bacteria that were multidrug resistant to antibiotics. It owes its salvation to bacteriophages.On the occasion ...
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