BIOTECHNOLOGY 53
MACHINE PHAGE AGAINST THE
Geoff Harper reports on the scientists fighting the war against antibiotic resistance
Geoff Harper rend compte de la guerre que les scientifiques mènent contre la résistance aux antibiotiques
Geoff Harper berichtet über den Kampf der Wissenschaftler gegen Antibiotika- resistenz
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s featured in the media over the past couple of years, increasing
antibiotic resistance could eventually mean that a hitherto simple, effective treatment for infectious diseases will no longer be available. However, where there’s a will, there’s a way… Te current resistant
bacterium on the radar is a strain of E. coli recently identified on farms in China as resistant to last-ditch antibiotic, colistin.
It has already reached the UK and is now causing some alarm. Identifying an appropriate bacteriophage to kill the superbug is not considered a drawback by academics, but is unlikely to be used on patients anytime soon, which brings us to novel ways of delivering and using phages. Martha Clokie, professor of
Microbiology, the Department of Infection Immunity and Inflammation at the University
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Could bacteriophages help win the battle against antibiotic resistance?
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