Mouse study shows bacteriophage therapy could fight drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Using viruses instead of antibiotics to tame troublesome drug-resistant bacteria is a promising strategy, known as bacteriophage or " phage therapy. " Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have used two different bacteriophage viruses individually and then together to successfully treat research mice infected with multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae sequence type 258 (ST258).
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news