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The Impact of Phage Technology on Antimicrobial Resistance
Phage is a virus capable of genetic alteration such that they can make the necessary alterations in this biologic agent you're using for attacking these microbes. This renders them once again susceptible to attack or attack them directly, literally by inserting some fatal genetic disorder into the microbe itself use the phage as an actual weapon. So if you can use CRISPR-Cas9 or other genome editing technologies to modify that phage to target the exact bacterium that you want then you're going to have a much more precise outcome.
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