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For example, unlike antibiotics, phage therapy can often be effective after only one dose, as phages are self-replicating; a Nature Paper cites that a single bacteriophage infection often leads to over 200 new bacteriophages being produced. Phage therapy involves administering patients with a cocktail of bacteriophages to kill specific bacteria. This information is then passed on to daughter bacteria when the bacteria themselves divide; these phages are called lysogenic bacteriophages. Many scientists have abandoned phage therapy as a realistic potential treatment as the exact strain of bacteria often must be known before administration. [Extracted from the article] |
