Antibiotic-resistant bacteria, impervious to the usual drugs, are on the rise, leading scientists to look into using viruses to fight them instead.
One of the greatest medical threats of our time is the impending one of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.Slowly but surely over decades of antibiotic use, the bugs we fight with drugs have evolved to become resistant to those drugs. This is a huge—and growing—problem around the globe, with many bacterial infections rapidly becoming resistant to our arsenal of defenses.One solution to the problem may be to use an unlikely ally: viruses.
'The benefit here is that phages are nearly unlimited, so we likely will not run out of them like we have done with antibiotics, and as they are so specific they do not cause side effects such as affecting your gut microbiome like antibiotics do,' he said.These phages can also be used in other areas to replace antibiotics, such as in agriculture.'Antibiotics being widely used in agriculture and accounting for a large amount of antibiotic production,' Barr said.
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