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Q&A: Love drugs and phaging superbugs

The Naked Scientists Podcast

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Phages: The Natural Enemy of Bacteria

The way we pay for antibiotics that most of them are what are called generics are made by companies often in india very well they do the trick unless there's some bacterial resistance but they're so cheap. In my book i talk about this idea of using the natural enemy of bacteria which are phages the viruses that infect bacteria. Even if we get new antibiotics coming online soon resistance will emerge to those antibiotics really quickly too because we're just using too many of them and they're being flushed out into our waterways, says sally davies.

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