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The new weapon in the fight against multidrug-resistant bacteria?

Antibiotics are increasingly failing to combat germs because bacteria have become resistant. The consequence: wounds that do not heal or life-threatening infections that cannot be controlled. New solutions are urgently being sought. Bacteriophages…

Phages Help with “Nightmare” Infections

Bacterial pathogens are increasingly failing to respond to antibiotics. In such cases, phage therapy can sometimes help, as a study demonstrates. A clinical trial is currently being prepared in Germany. Phage therapy can help combat difficult-to-treat…

Phages: Bacteria-Eaters from Georgia as Tomorrow’s Medicine

What to do when antibiotics no longer work? Patients from around the world travel to Georgia to receive treatment with bacteriophages. Phage therapy is now also available in Belgium. Tanja Diederen from near Maastricht in the Netherlands…

When viruses save lives

According to the World Health Organization, antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest dangers and challenges facing humanity. The French research project PHAG-ONE is therefore trying to develop an alternative to antibiotics. It relies on…

Bacteriophages instead of antibiotics

Colds, diarrhea, pneumonia: Bacteriophages could, in principle, be used against any infection caused by bacteria, said microbiologist Wolfgang Bayer on Dlf. However, as long as antibiotics generate more revenue for the pharmaceutical industry,…