Bacteriophage therapy
04/07/2018 / By Edsel Cook
Local lake virus saves man suffering from life-threatening, antibiotic resistant heart infection
An 80-year old Connecticut man owed his life to a virus taken from a nearby lake. Experimental bacteriophage therapy with the OMKO1 virus eliminated an antibiotic-resistant infection that was threatening the man’s heart, according to a LiveScience article. Researchers from the Yale School of Medicine (YSM) in New Haven, Connecticut reported that the naturally-occurring virus succeeded in treating Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which […]
02/19/2018 / By Ralph Flores
Natural bacteria-killing viruses in the bladder may prove more effective at clearing UTIs than antibiotics
Our body is home to a lot of organisms besides our cells. While some of them may be pathogenic, waiting for a chance to strike, most of them help us out a lot. A case in point: A recent study has reported that bacterial viruses called bacteriophages (or phages for short), which infect and replicate […]
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