Sentences with phrase «phage treatment»

Young worked with fellow researchers across the country to use phage treatment to save the life of Dr. Tom Patterson, a professor at UC San Diego School of Medicine, who while on a trip to Egypt became infected with a multi-resistant strain of Acinetobacter baumannii, a deadly pathogen.

«Phage treatment was effective in inhibiting bacterial growth in food, while the number of phages in the food grew, indicating that phages infect bacteria and grow in them also when refrigerated,» says Skurnik.

The contaminated food was then subjected to phage treatment, after which the number of both bacteria and phages was monitored for three days.

But the discovery of penicillin and other antibiotics eclipsed phage treatments in the West, although research continued in the Soviet Union.

Not exact matches

As a result, phage therapy is now used only for the sickest patients, as a treatment of last resort.

For now, Adaptive Phage Therapeutics plans to use the AI system at its Maryland office to determine the best course of treatment for a patient, choose the right phage from its collection, and send the phage to the hospPhage Therapeutics plans to use the AI system at its Maryland office to determine the best course of treatment for a patient, choose the right phage from its collection, and send the phage to the hospphage from its collection, and send the phage to the hospphage to the hospital.

This is good news, because phage could be used as alternative treatment when antibiotics become resistant to pathogenic bacteria.

«This first step in the characterization of the phages already present within the bladder has the potential to identify candidates for subsequent phage therapy clinical studies for urinary symptom treatment.»

«Phage have been used as an alternative to antibiotics for decades in eastern European countries, particularly for treatment of urinary tract infections,» said corresponding author Catherine Putonti, PhD, Associate Professor of Bioinformatics, Loyola University, Chicago.

To the best of Skurnik's knowledge, corresponding studies on the application of phages in food treatment have not been conducted anywhere prior to this.

Each strain of phage is highly targeted and has evolved to home in on specific bacteria, which means a precise match between prey and predator is necessary for any phage - based treatment to be effective.

«The food safety preparations, the possible acne treatment, these are all potential icebreakers — incremental steps toward acceptance of phage therapeutics,» says Graham Hatfull, a biology professor and co-director of the University of Pittsburgh Bacteriophage Institute.

D'Herelle's treatment came to be known as phage therapy.

A handful of desperate Americans — struggling with treatment - resistant infections, diabetic ulcers or other chronic wounds — have journeyed to a clinic in Tbilisi, Georgia, for the «phage miracle cure.»

The success of this study may provide the foundation for an improved program for high school students to foster their interest in research and gain invaluable experiences outside of the classroom while providing bacteriophages that can serve as the base chassis of synthetically engineered phages for diagnosis and treatment of MDR pathogens.