Around the world, harmful bacteria are gaining resistance to our most common antibiotics. However, a type of viruses called bacteriophages may provide a solution. In this video, NIAID experts Shayla Hesse, M.D., a Clinical Infectious Diseases Fellow at NIAID, and Randall Kincaid, Ph.D., a Senior Scientific Officer in the Concept Acceleration Program of NIAID's Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, explain how these "phages" function, and how NIAID is supporting new phage research.
Fighting Infection with Phages
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