Phage Therapy: Combating Infections with Potential for Evolving from Merely a Treatment for Complications to Targeting Diseases

Phage Therapy: Combating Infections with Potential for Evolving from Merely a Treatment for Complications to Targeting Diseases

Antimicrobial resistance is considered to be one of the greatest challenges of medicine and our civilization. Lack of progress in developing new anti-bacterial agents has greatly revived interest in using phage therapy to combat antibiotic-resistant infections. Although a number of clinical trials a...

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Main Authors: Andrzej Gorski, Ryszard Międzybrodzki, Beata Weber-Dąbrowska, Wojciech Fortuna, Slawomir Letkiewicz, Paweł Rogóż, Ewa Jończyk-Matysiak, Krystyna Dabrowska, Joanna Marta Majewska, Jan Borysowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
Inflammation
Reactive Oxygen Species
antibiotic resistance
Bacteriophage
phage therapy
Compassionate Use
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01515/full

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