Bacteriophage Rescue Therapy of a Vancomycin-Resistant <i>Enterococcus faecium</i> Infection in a One-Year-Old Child following a Third Liver Transplantation

Bacteriophage Rescue Therapy of a Vancomycin-Resistant <i>Enterococcus faecium</i> Infection in a One-Year-Old Child following a Third Liver Transplantation

Phage therapy is an experimental therapeutic approach used to target multidrug-resistant bacterial infections. A lack of reliable data with regard to its efficacy and regulatory hurdles hinders a broad application. Here we report, for the first time, a case of vancomycin-resistant <i>Enterococ...

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Main Authors: Kevin Paul, Maya Merabishvili, Ronen Hazan, Martin Christner, Uta Herden, Daniel Gelman, Leron Khalifa, Ortal Yerushalmy, Shunit Coppenhagen-Glazer, Theresa Harbauer, Sebastian Schulz-Jürgensen, Holger Rohde, Lutz Fischer, Saima Aslam, Christine Rohde, Ran Nir-Paz, Jean-Paul Pirnay, Dominique Singer, Ania Carolina Muntau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-09-01
Series:Viruses
Subjects:
bacteriophage
<i>Enterococcus faecium</i>
biliary atresia
vancomycin
multi-drug resistance
critical care
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/9/1785

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