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1. Fellows Report Cover
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2. Churchill Fellow's Report:
The Health Value Of Bacteriophages
(20 pages)
3. Phage2008
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Phage conference poster
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Key words: anti-bacterial biofilm phage
Would you like to read a scientific adventure story with a political twist?
It takes place in the
Here are the main characters: bacteria and bacteriophages
(phages, for short).
Here are the 5 pictures.
Bacteria on a glass plate, with the effects of phages
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Phages could be used in combination with an enzyme for long-lasting effects - look at the green line
Photo courtesy of Drs. Lasha Gogokhia and Randall Wolcott, Lubbock, Texas
Bacterial biofilms on a hospital catheter - and preventing them with phages
Figures 2a and 2b courtesy of Dr. Rodney Donlan, USA - BiofilmsOnline
Visiting the military hospital in Georgia where phages are used routinely to prevent and treat infections
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Photo courtesy of Robin Rotherham
Invisible phages are everywhere in nature - they evolved 4 billion years ago
Bacteriophages are everywhere, including a river in Georgia. Photo courtesy of Dr. Amy Filby
Bacteriophages!
'made by nature'
'do no harm to the body'
'do no harm to nature'
'no side effects'
'present in the atmosphere, soil, water, living things etc.'
'viral agents whose function is to destroy bacteria'
"Billions of phages occur naturally; their weight in the oceans alone is though to be equal to the weight of human beings on Earth.
The first inkling that phages existed came in 1896 when British chemist Ernest Hanbury Hankin discovered that the murky waters of the River Ganges could destroy cholera bacteria." [sic]
Tom Parfitt, UK
The Lancet Volume 365, June 2005
"From a clinical standpoint, phages appear to be innocuous."
Harald Brüssow, Switzerland.
Phage Therapy: The Western Perspective, 2007
Bacteriophage Genetics and Molecular Biology; Caister Academic Press 2007
"This is about half the cost of 10-day therapy with vancomycin and several times less compared with the other drugs ..." and without the adverse effects.
Miedzybrodzki R et al, Poland
Evidence:
Phage therapy of staphylococcal infections ... 2007
http://www.relax-well.co.uk/less_expensive_than_antibiotics.pdf
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