Lessons Learned From the First 10 Consecutive Cases of Intravenous Bacteriophage Therapy to Treat Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Infections at a Single Center in the United States

Abstract Background Due to increasing multidrug-resistant (MDR) infections, there is an interest in assessing the use of bacteriophage therapy (BT) as an antibiotic alternative. After the first successful case of intravenous BT to treat a systemic MDR infection at our institution in 2017, the Center...

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Published in:	Open forum infectious diseases Vol. 7; no. 9; p. ofaa389
Main Authors:	Aslam, Saima, Lampley, Elizabeth, Wooten, Darcy, Karris, Maile, Benson, Constance, Strathdee, Steffanie, Schooley, Robert T
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	US Oxford University Press 01.09.2020
Subjects:	Antibiotics Bacterial infections Infections Major Phages United States > US multidrug-resistant infections bacteriophage therapy phage therapy
ISSN:	2328-8957, 2328-8957
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