'Phage' fishing yields new weapon against antibiotic resistance
Thursday, May 26, 2016 - 09:20
in Health & Medicine
Researchers were fishing for a new weapon against antibiotic resistance and found one floating in a Connecticut pond. A 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 with compromised immune systems.