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Yale Doctors Collects Viruses From Pond To Destroy An Antibiotic Resistance Infe by DivinedeGuru: 11:40am On Mar 12, 2018
Yale doctors replaced a blood vessel in a 76-year-old man’s heart, his chest became infected with bacteria.

The doctors tried using the normal solution of killin the bacteria with antibiotics but that wouldn’t kill the microbe, Paeruginosa.
In recent years, many bateria have been resistant to traditional drugs.

So, the doctors decided to run an experimental solution, which involves a bacteria-killing virus known as a bacteriophage.
The doctors employed this still-experimental treatment, inserting hundreds of thousands of viruses known to battle this very bacteria into the man’s chest.
On Thursday, Yale announced the treatment worked and published the study in the journal Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health.

Read the full article: https://pekipan.com/yale-doctors-collects-viruses-from-pond-to-destroy-an-antibiotic-resistance-infection/#.WqZXDujwbIU

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