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The study paves the way for future clinical trials and encourages further exploration of phage therapy as an alternative and auxiliary approach against antibiotic-resistant infections.

As the year draws to an end, we highlight some non-fiction by regional writers in 2022. In today’s excerpt from COVID-19, A History, Dr. Jacalyn Duffin…

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Bakteriophagen sind jeweils spezialisiert auf eine Bakterienart, oder sogar auf einzelne Stämme innerhalb einer Art. Das ist zum Beispiel bei Darmerkrankungen wie dem Reizdarmsyndrom vorteilhaft, weil Bakteriophagen - anders als Antibiotika - die "guten" Bakterien der Darmflora unbehelligt lassen und keine entsprechenden Nebenwirkungen verursachen. Ein Nachteil ist genau das allerdings in der täglichen Praxis: Um den richtigen Phagen auszuwählen, muss man erst analysieren, welches Bakterium ...

Turning Terror into a Scientific Memoir Interview with Steffanie Strathdee, author of The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug Bill Sullivan In 1915, microbiologist Frederick Twort occasionally noticed clear areas disrupting the growth of bacteria on his culture dishes. Twort found that the fluid in these clear areas contained a powerful substance that could kill bacteria. Following up on these observations at his laboratory at the Pasteur Institu...

Pitfalls of vaccine nationalism Workers unload a pickup van that carries Oxford-Astrazeneca Covid-19 vaccines which arrived from India as a gift to Bangladesh, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 21, 2021. Photo: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters In 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic brought the world literally to a standstill, with infections in the millions and deaths of more than 1.8 million people. But then, another one million died in the next three months. The number of Covid-19 deaths now stands at 2,88...