Bacteriophages as adjuvant to antibiotics for the treatment of periprosthetic joint infection caused by multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Bacteriophages as adjuvant to antibiotics for the treatment of periprosthetic joint infection caused by multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2019 Sep 16;: Authors: Tkhilaishvili T, Winkler T, Müller M, Perka C, Trampuz A Abstract We documented the adjunctive bacteriophage therapy to treat a chronic relapsing periprosthetic joint infection of the knee and chronic osteomyelitis of the femur, caused by multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa The combined antibiotic/phage treatment eradicated the infection and no side effects to phages were observed. PMID: 31527029 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy - Category: Microbiology Authors: Tags: Antimicrob Agents Chemother Source Type: research