NEWS RELEASE 11-JUL-2024 When antibiotics fail, bacteriophages can often save lives, but determining which ones will work and sourcing them is haphazard Peer-Reviewed PublicationMCMASTER UNIVERSITY IMAGE: MCMASTER UNIVERSITY RESEARCHER ZEINAB HOSSEINIDOUST HOLDS AN ACTIVE PHAGE SAMPLE STORED IN SOLID FORM. CREDIT: MCMASTER UNIVERSITY The great promise of bacteriophages is that they naturally destroy bacteria, often...
AUGUST 8TH, 2023 CONN HASTINGS MEDICINE, PUBLIC HEALTH, UROLOGY Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a bacteriophage system to identify and treat bacterial bladder infections. Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria, but these microorganisms have fallen out of favor as a treatment method for infection since antibiotics came along. Well, antibiotics are looking increasingly shaky as bacteria...
by University of Geneva Patient treatment, follow-up and sample collection. a Antibiotic treatments are indicated by green horizontal lines and phage therapies by blue vertical lines. P. aeruginosa isolates selected for genotypic and phenotypic analysis are shown above the black-dotted vertical lines. Numbering of isolates and events is in reference to the day of the first...
by NanJing Agricultural University Examples of the combination of nanotechnology with phages. (A) Use of phages conjugated with gold NPs for the identification of bacteria (detection, sensing, typing) based on color changes due to their surface plasmon resonance properties. (B) Use of phages conjugated with gold nanorods (AuNRs) for focalized photothermal therapy. (C) Encapsulation and adsorption...
by National Jewish Health Credit: CC0 Public Domain For the first time, researchers have successfully used bacteriophages—viruses that kill bacteria—to treat an antibiotic-resistant mycobacterial lung infection, clearing the way for a young National Jewish Health patient with cystic fibrosis to receive a life-saving lung transplant. The successful use of phages to treat a Mycobacterium abscessus...
Published: December 15, The selectivity of bacteriophages and the flexibility of phage-based preventative or curative treatments hold the promise to counteract the emerging antimicrobial resistant bacteria and other pathogens. An increasing understanding of the phage biology and recent scientific advancements in the field suggest that this might be possible. Main Text Bacteriophages (or phages) have...
