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PRO/EDR> Antibiotic resistance – USA: (CA) MDR-Acinetobacter, bacteriophage therapy

Acinetobacter baumannii -- United StatesScientists 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 Read more [...]