4 July, 2015 11:09
Alarmed by rising resistance to antibiotics scientists and governments are taking a fresh look at bacteria-chomping viruses first isolated a century ago from the stools of patients recovering from
Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.reuters.com
So nearly 100 years after Felix d’Herelle started championing phage therapy, the West is finally taking notice? I’t actually way past time that they were taken seriously: the Eliava Institute in Georgia has nearly that long a history (d’Herelle influenced the founder to start their enormous collection of phages) of successful treatment of bacterial infections, but westerners have stayed wedded to increasingly ineffective antibiotics for the last 70-something years.
I know what I might work on in my old age….
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Posted by Ed Rybicki
Categories: biotechnology, Evolution, General Virology, history, phages, techniques, Vaccines: General, Viruses
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Felix d’herelle was just too awesome.. But they really should have considered his work over antibiotics.. And than God for Eliava institute!!
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By Reuben on 4 July, 2015 at 20:28