Phage therapy
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phage-therapy-166-1848178
title:
Phage therapy
text:
Phage therapy, viral phage therapy, or phagotherapy is the therapeutic use of bacteriophages for the treatment of pathogenic bacterial infections. This therapeutic approach emerged at the beginning of the 20th century but was progressively replaced by the use of antibiotics in most parts of the world after the Second World War. Bacteriophages, known as phages, are a form of virus that attach to bacterial cells and inject their genome into the cell. The bacteria's production of the viral genome i
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Therapeutic use of bacteriophages to treat bacterial infections
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy
date created:
2004-05-27T01:55:59Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T19:53:23Z
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