Sentences with phrase «phage therapy with»
It might be possible to follow up phage therapy with antibiotics and completely wipe out an infection.
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Scientists at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the Catalan Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) have developed a nanoencapsulation system with a liposome coating in order to increase the efficacy of bacteriophages in oral phage therapy.
The work was published recently in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology and is part of the PhD thesis with international mention by Joan Colom Comas entitled «Studies of the Molecular features of Three Salmonella Phages for Use in Phage Therapy and of Encapsulation Methodologies to Improve Oral Phage Administration.»
The technology developed could be applied to bacteriophages with different morphologies to be used in phage therapy, in both animals and humans.
Around that time, a colleague of ours at UC San Francisco said that a friend of hers had been treated with phage therapy in Tbilisi, Georgia.