MRSA or Phage Therapy?

Scientific references are available here:
Babies - children - bacteriophage therapy - multidrug resistant bacteria:

http://www.medscimonit.com/fulltxt.php?ICID=865805

phage • MRSA • cost of therapy • staphylococcal infection:

http://www.phmd.pl/pub/phmd/vol_61/10883.pdf

Polish Academy of Sciences - Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy,
Centre of Excellence since October 2002:
http://www.iitd.pan.wroc.pl/phages/phages.html


Produced by Grace Filby http://www.amazingphage.info

Music: http://www.mfiles.co.uk

Poland clinic photos:
Edinburgh conference photos: http://www.dermatologyinstitute.us


This research overseas was made possible by a Travelling Fellowship Award from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust - http://www.wcmt.org.uk

Further research took place in Tbilisi and Gori (Republic of Georgia), Lubbock,Texas, Washington DC, Virginia Beach, Chicago, Olympia (USA), Toronto (Canada), Wroclaw and Warsaw (Poland).


The second part shows a meeting of 150 phage scientists at the first Edinburgh International Phage Conference, July 2008. http://www.edinburgh-phage-conference.org

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[markgg1]

Cool.. but some data would be nice - as in some stats on how succesful phage therapy is.

Tah

:-)

[pinknonsense]

@markgg1 - Mark, if you are a student doing a write up on the pros/cons of phage therapy and struggling to find any usable data then I think you need to go to Google Scholar and the online libraries rather than my little 3 minute offering on YouTube. It was a simple Travelling Fellowship that I was awarded, not a PhD, you know! You could download my 20-page 2007 Churchill Fellows report or follow up the links I provided in the info at the top of this page.

[pinknonsense]

@markgg1 - However there is now a mini scientific review of phage therapy which I have since co-authored with the Polish team. You can probably find it as a reference on the Wikipedia page. There is also a monograph from the Georgian scientists at the Eliava Institute which gives data since the 1920s. That document is 184 pages long, provides great detail and is not cheap to obtain, so may I suggest you read my brief write-up on it on my Amazingphage blog (January 2010).

[markgg1]

@pinknonsense Hey.. thanks for help. I did manage to find lots of data to use. I found I had to take some it third hand as lots was in russian or not online at all, and lots of studies lacking control groups which is a shame as the evidence cannot be used.

Seems like a very promising line of therapy though, and hope more research is done in future confirming it.

Thanks