Antibiotics vs Phage Therapy

Research from Poland.

Grace Filby visits the Polish Academy of Sciences. She highlights a scientific paper, with evidence that phage therapy for staphylococcal infections (including MRSA) can be less expensive than antibiotic treatment. Summary: "The current drama of antibiotic resistance has revived interest in phage therapy. In response to this challenge, a phage therapy centre was established at our institute in 2005, which accepts patients from Poland and abroad, with antibiotic-resistant infections." During her research as a Churchill Fellow, she meets patients who had acquired MRSA in hospitals from surgery. They had been treated unsuccessfully with strong antibiotics. After being referred to the Phage Therapy clinic in Wroclaw "as a moral obligation" both patients are cured. Their wounds have healed. http://www.amazingphage.info

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• MRSA
• antibiotics
• Poland
• Wroclaw
• phage
• bacteriophage
• savings
• Grace
• Filby
• science
• academy
• staphylococcus

[panthera50]

Time to work WITH this, not agains it pharmaceutical companies !

[CrystalStiletto]

Thank you for sharing (~: