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Antibiotic resistance: where do we go next?

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Are Phage Therapies a Good Idea?

There's been a growing scientific interest in developing treatments that could be used more widely. Where do these phages come from? How do scientists kind of collect them, harvest them if you like? Any individual phage won't work on all bacteria. So the key is really to try and find phages that are going to be useful for particular infections.

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