Acinetobacter baumannii — United States
Scientists and physicians at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, working with colleagues at the U.S. Navy Medical Research Center – Biological Defense Research Directorate (NMRC-BDRD), Texas A&M University, a San Diego-based biotech and elsewhere, have successfully used an experimental therapy involving bacteriophages – viruses that target and consume specific strains of bacteria – to treat a patient near death from a multidrug-resistant bacterium.
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