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Injecting patients with friendly viruses can kill off deadly bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. The microscopic viruses, called bacteriophages (pictured), or phages, hunt and destroy bacteria.
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Phage Viruses That Target Bacteria Have Been Known for a Century but There Are Still No Clinical Trials – Though Compassionate Treatment of Patients With Pseudomonas Shows Huge Success
A new international study conducted by the Israeli Phage Therapy Center (IPTC) led by Prof. Ran Nir-Paz at Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center and Prof. Ronen Hazan of the Faculty of Dental Medicine at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, using phage PASA16 on compassionate basis to treat tough Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections, has shown promising results with an 86.6% success rate.