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Phage therapy

Treating bacterial infections with viruses that infect bacteria, an approach being studied again as drug resistance grows.Source: Strathdee et al., 2023

Also called bacteriophage.

Technology or methodEmerging research
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How Phage therapy connects

Phage therapy uses

  • Organism or group

    Virus

    Nucleic acid in a protein coat. A virus cannot copy itself alone: it must infect a cell and use the cell's machinery.

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Phage therapy is related to

  • Process

    Antimicrobial resistance

    Microbes evolving to survive drugs meant to kill them. Bacterial resistance was associated with an estimated 4.95 million deaths in 2019.

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