🍹 The Only Cocktails Superbugs Actually Hate
Published by OOPSONLINE.IN · Source: Phys.org · 1 min read · · Updated
😳 OOPS SAYS
"Diverse phage cocktails" sounds like a very aggressive hipster happy hour, but using viruses to beat bacteria is the kind of enemy-of-my-enemy energy we can get behind.
What actually happened
As multidrug antibiotic resistance emerges as a potent public health challenge, medical science has renewed attention on the potential for bacteriophage therapy. Bacteriophages, or phages, are viruses that target, infect and replicate inside bacteria, destroying them in the process. To help maximize the success rate of this approach, researchers recently modeled the dynamics of bacteriophage therapy to explain particular therapies and optimize the composition of bacteriophage cocktails.
Key points
- As multidrug antibiotic resistance emerges as a potent public health challenge, medical science has renewed attention on the potential for bacteriophage therapy.
- Bacteriophages, or phages, are viruses that target, infect and replicate inside bacteria, destroying them in the process.
- To help maximize the success rate of this approach, researchers recently modeled the dynamics of bacteriophage therapy to explain particular therapies and optimize the composition of bacteriophage cocktails.
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