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Clinical Trials of Bacteriophage Therapeutics
The 100-year anniversary of the discovery of bacteriophages has come and gone. After being overshadowed by the limelight success of penicillin in the 1940s, phage therapy (PT) is once again making headlines in...
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Antibiotic resistance has incited a renewed interest in phage therapy as an alternative treatment option for bacterial infections. The potential risk of incurring a parallel situation of resistance to phage as...
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The 100-year anniversary of the discovery of bacteriophages has come and gone. After being overshadowed by the limelight success of penicillin in the 1940s, phage therapy (PT) is once again making headlines in...
