‘Phage’ fishing yields new weapon against antibiotic resistance

Thursday, May 26, 2016 - 12:50 in Health & Medicine

Yale researchers were fishing for a new weapon against antibiotic resistance and found one floating in a Connecticut pond, they report May 26 in the journal Scientific Reports. The virus called a bacteriophage, found in Dodge Pond in East Lyme, attacks a common multi-drug resistant bacterial pathogen called Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which can lethally infect people […]

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