Paving a regulatory pathway for phage therapy
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Paving a regulatory pathway for phage therapy. Europe should muster the resources to financially, technically and legally support the introduction of phage therapy.
The increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics is a significant threat to human health and is a direct result of the excessive and improper use of these drugs. In 2007, multidrug-resistant bact erial strains infected more than 400,000 people in Europe and 25,000 patients died from the infections [1]. ‘Superbugs’ also have considerable economic impact: extra hospital costs and related prod...
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عنوان ژورنال: EMBO reports
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1469-221X,1469-3178
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2013.163