Bacteriophages are now used in the most difficult medical cases, for example, in a woman from Belgium
After two years of unsuccessful antibiotic treatment, the researchers used bacteriophages sent from Tbilisi. As a result, she was able to recover from the infection in three months.
We use those bacteriophages that kill bad bacteria to cure patients when antibiotics don't work.
Mzia Kutateladze, employee of the Eliava Bacteriophage Institute
According to Kutateladze, even a mild infection cankill the patient because the pathogen has developed antibiotic resistance. The WHO has announced that antimicrobial resistance is a global crisis. Therefore, bacteriophages are being studied again, as they can act on bacteria while leaving human cells intact.
Phage-based drugs cannot fullyreplace antibiotics. However, researchers say they have many advantages: they are cheap, have no side effects, and do not damage organs or intestinal flora.
The researchers said they could even train bacteriophages to kill more bacteria.
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