"We were at the point where there was no other hope, they said she wasn't going to leave the hospital and had less than 1% chance of survival."
But after being treated with a cocktail of bacteriophages – viruses which are specialised to kill the bacteria but not infect human cells – she is now back taking her GCSEs and learning to drive.
DISCOVERED BY RUSSIANS AND DEVELOPED BY SOVIET SCIENCE AS AN ALTERNATIVE THERAPY TO ANTIBIOTICS, IGNORED BY THE WEST FOR SEVENTY YEARS UNTIL THE ADVENT OF SUPERBUGS
DISCOVERED BY RUSSIANS AND DEVELOPED BY SOVIET SCIENCE AS AN ALTERNATIVE THERAPY TO ANTIBIOTICS, IGNORED BY THE WEST FOR SEVENTY YEARS UNTIL THE ADVENT OF SUPERBUGS
A bacteriophage also known informally as a phage is a virus that infects and replicates within bacteria and archaea. The term was derived from "bacteria" and
Phage therapy or viral phage therapy is the therapeutic use of bacteriophages to treat pathogenic bacterial infections. Phage therapy has many potential ...
Noun. biophage (plural biophages) (biology) Any organism that derives its nourishment from another living organism.
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Isabelle was told she had less than a 1% chance of survival after a bacterial infection ravaged her body.
