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Bacteriophage Therapeutics: A Primer for Clinicians on Phage‐Antibiotic Combinations
24 Dec 2019
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Multidrug-resistant organisms have caused a marked depletion of effective antimicrobials, and the narrow pipeline of antibiotics has demanded the need to find novel therapeutic alternatives including nonantibiotic agents. Bacteriophages (phages) are viruses that use the bacterial machinery to infect, replicate, and kill bacterial cells. Although a marked decline in their use was driven by the discovery of...
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