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The solution to antibiotic resistance could be in your kitchen sponge

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY San Francisco, CA – June 23, 2019 – Researchers from the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) have discovered bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, living in their kitchen sponges. As the threat of antibiotic resistance increases, bacteriophages, or phages for short, may prove useful in fighting bacteria that cannot be killed by antibiotics alone. The research...