Phage therapy, Viral Phage Therapy, or phagotherapy is the therapeutic use of bacteriophages to treat pathogenic bacterial infections

bacteriophage therapy uses viruses to treat bacterial infections.

when all antibiotics fail, phages still succeed in killing the bacteria and may save a life from an infection.

Phages are very selective in the strains of bacteria they are effective against.[3] Advantages include reduced side-effects and reduced risk of the bacterium's developing resistance

Disadvantages include the difficulty of finding an effective phage for a particular infection

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