Bacteriophage cocktail shows significant promise for Clostridium difficile infections
Wednesday, June 1, 2016 - 11:20
in Health & Medicine
Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) are responsible for approximately 39% of antibiotic-associated diarrhea in the Western world, causing 10% of deaths. Now researchers report that specific phage combinations caused complete destruction of C. difficile cells while in animal model dramatically reduced spread.