For phage therapy to work, there is no room for chance: a phagogram must be performed. This sensitivity test identifies the bacteriophages capable of destroying your bacterial strain. But be careful: transporting a bacterium is no trivial matter. It is an operation subject to very strict international and national laws. Here is everything you need […]
The Eliava Institute of Bacteriophages, located in Tbilisi, Georgia, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. And on this occasion, how could we not mention the discoverer of phage therapy, Félix d’Hérelle? Together with his Georgian colleague and friend Giorgi Eliava, Félix d’Hérelle published his first results in 1917 on a filterable and transferable living […]
Simone, aged 76, underwent a procedure in a French hospital to treat chronic bronchitis that had already been lasting for several years. Unfortunately, she developed a Staphylococcus aureus infection following this procedure. This staphylococcal infection, treated with antibiotics for more than three years, could never be eradicated. The antibiotics became increasingly ineffective, or Simone had […]