Phage Therapy in Clinical Practice: Treatment of Human Infections

Phage therapy is the application of bacteria-specific viruses with the goal of reducing or eliminating pathogenic or nuisance bacteria. While phage therapy has become a broadly relevant technology, including veterinary, agricultural, and food microbiology applications, it is for the treatment or prevention of human infections that phage therapy first caught the worlds imagination - see, especially, Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (1925) - and which...