New guidelines for phage preparation can accelerate lifesaving treatment – Phys.org

When clinicians resort to phage therapy for patients who don’t respond to antibiotics, the patients are usually very ill and time is of the essence. But the average time for labs to produce therapeutic phages is more than a month.
The main reason for this is the lack of a standardized phage purification process for research labs, despite the fact that phage therapywhich uses viruses to destroy disease causing bacteriahas been around for over a century.
Now, a San Diego State University lab tha…

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