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Using a Virus to Kill What Antibiotics Can’t

Long thought promising, viruses that target bacteria may be edging closer to use.

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Using a Virus to Kill What Antibiotics Can’t



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Due largely to overuse, we’re at risk of seeing many of our antibiotics lose effectiveness, leaving us without a defense against a number of potentially fatal infections. People are taking a variety of approaches to dealing with this, like looking for combinations of drugs that remain effective, developing entirely new drugs, and trying to reform how we dispense these critical drugs. (Although the latter may be an impossible dream.)

There’s another option that was under consideration even before antibiotic resistance had hit crisis levels: use something that makes killing bacteria part of its life cycle.

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