Bacteriophage therapy of bacterial infections: an update of our institute's experience

• Authors: B. Weber-Dabrowska , M. Mulczyk , A. Gorski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

1307 patients with suppurative bacterial infections caused by multidrug resistant bacteria of different species were treated with specific bacteriophages (BP). BP therapy was highly effective; full recovery was noted in 1123 cases (85.9%). In 134 cases (10.9%) transient improvement was observed and only in 50 cases (3.8%) BP treatment was found to be ineffective. The results confirm the high effectiveness of BP therapy in combating bacterial infections which do not respond to treatment with all available antibiotics.

Keywords

EN

BACTERIAL INFECTION   DRUG RESISTANCE   PHAGE THERAPY  

Discipline

• IMMUNOLOGY: IMMUNOLOGY

• Publisher: Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis
• Year: 2000
• Volume: 48
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 547-555
• Document Type: REVIEW
• Publication order reference: B. Weber-Dabrowska, Laboratory of Bacteriophages, Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Weigla 12, 53-114 Wroclaw, Poland