An experimental treatment using viruses to kill bacteria gave a mother more months of life and furthered knowledge to help future patients, researchers report in a recent case study. It was a ...

Biliary tract infection (BTI) is a disease with high morbidity and mortality, often associated with structural abnormalities such as common bile duct stones and malignant tumors. Although Pseudomonas ...

The public are in favor of the development of bacteria-killing viruses as an alternative to antibiotics – and more efforts to educate will make them significantly more likely to use the treatment, a ...

Antimicrobial resistance, in which germs like bacteria and fungi no longer respond to medicines, is a rising global threat. When antibiotics and other drugs become ineffective, infections can become ...

But a forgotten treatment, first discovered more than a century ago, could offer hope. Known as bacteriophage therapy—or "phage therapy," for short—it uses viruses that naturally prey on bacteria, ...

LYON, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: PHAXIAM Therapeutics (Euronext: PHXM - FR0011471135), a biopharmaceutical company (“PHAXIAM” or “the Company”) developing innovative treatments for ...

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 14, 2024 – It was a last-ditch effort. For years doctors had tried to keep a patient’s recurrent drug-resistant bacterial blood infection at bay, but it kept coming back and ...