Saturday Cimema: Bacteriophage Therapy
With MRSA threatening to infect huge numbers of patients who make even short trips to the hospital, and the gradual increase in the number of bacteria that are resistant to all known antiobiotics, scientists are turning to new ways to conquer the killer bugs. The emergence of dangerous antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria is most prevalent in the USA where antibiotics are available over the counter and are often mishandled. The answers to these problems may be locked in the science of the former Soviet Union, and whether this potential can be unlocked depends on subtle aspects of intellectual property and patent law, since pharmaceutical companies must be able to control the revenues from a discovery:
Tags: Bacteria, Biology, Biotechnology, Health, Medicine, Microbiology, Science, Virology
Makes you want to change field, doesn’t it…? I do a phage practical with third-year students every year, involving isolating and characterising coliphages / salmonella phages out of polluted water; we tried this year to do phages of lab Staph aureus – but found none. We will try next year, with a little homework, and some liaison with our local hospital bacteriologists, who culture MRSA (in a P3 lab).
Phages are so EASY!
Those of us born true scientists can never understand why the world (people of one planet)cannot work for the betterment of all without the ever present money barrier. I work in my own research lab on fresh water protista and am in a Doc Program writting my dissertation on malaria. I also am a collector of micro photography as an art form. If people could see and understand that we are all the same and our differences are artificial are welcome to exchange ideas with me wildflower@volcano.net Roberta
I have been working with Pseudomonas phages in my past research work.yes pseudomonas phages worked in invitro conditions .I wonder if they work in invivo .phagetherapist should work concentrate more on invivo studies.