From the article it appears phages were championed in the former Soviet Union purely because it was an approach that was not used by the West. Antibiotics appar

From the article it appears phages were championed in the former Soviet Union purely because it was an approach that was not used by the West. Antibiotics apparently were easier to commercialize and phage research dwindled but did not completely die off as the solution phages discussed in the article were found in two separate US facilities (combining the work of others worldwide), at the Navy and Texas A&M.