Kristin and Jane are joined by Professor Jonathan Iredell, ID and Microbiology Consultant at Westmead and Professor of Medicine and Microbiology and Sydney Medical School.
We discuss:
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What is a bacteriophage?
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How can they help in a battle against antimicrobial resistance?
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How do we use them? What's the dose and route of administration?
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Which infections can they be used for?
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How can they be regulated?
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What adverse effects can we expect from phage therapy?
Further reading:
The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug : A Memoir by Stephanie Strathdee and Thomas Patterson, available at the Book Depository
Professor Iredell's research page at Sydney Uni
A review of phage therapy published this year by Patey and colleagues (Full text available)
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