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 has suffered from hidradenitis suppurativa for 30 years, a chronic skin condition in which hair follicles become painfully inflamed—often in intimate areas such as the armpits and chest.
In August 2019, the now 50-year-old made a radical decision: She discontinued the increasingly ineffective antibiotics and traveled to Georgia for two weeks to undergo treatment with bacteriophages.
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