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Bacteriophages are cool. I watched a documentary two or three years ago about western people travelling to Tbilisi, Georgia (were they use bacteriophages since
by tutanchamun 8y ago
Bacteriophages are cool. I watched a documentary two or three years ago about western people travelling to Tbilisi, Georgia (were they use bacteriophages since the 1930s) in hope for tratment of their wounds which were infected with antibiotica resistant bacteria.
First they determined which phages to use and then they injected them into the wounds while also giving the patient a cocktail to drink multiple times of the day that also contained these phages.
At least for the patients shown this was helpful.
- elliekelly 8y agoAny chance you remember what the documentary was called?
- tutanchamun 8y agoUnfortunately not, I tried to find it yesterday but had no luck. The only documentation I could find was a recent one in german [0] but the one I watched was in english. In this documentation they also mentioned that there are two different types of phages and only one is usable. They also mentioned that food companies already try to use them to disinfect food by spraying phages on the food. [0] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zdf.de%2Fgesellschaft%2Fplan-b%2Fplan-b-heilen-ohne-antibiotika-100.html https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https... (not sure if that can even be viewed outside of germany, it's also not only about phages but multiple alternatives to antibiotics, but it seem similar -> people travel to georgia for treatment; there are two patients, one from germany and one from the netherlands)
- elliekelly 8y agoAwesome, thanks!