Standardized guidelines for phage therapy can speed up lifesaving treatment – News-Medical.Net

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 therapy — which uses viruses to destroy disease causing bacteria — has been around for over a century.
Now, a San Diego State University…

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