Submitted by champdecap t3_ydy6jn in askscience
The_RealKeyserSoze t1_itxt2xe wrote
Reply to comment by rdrunner_74 in How is a person who has built up resistance to antibiotics treated? by champdecap
>”If even those backups dont work, you will be out of luck. You can now only be treated for the symptoms and hope that they wont kill you.”
There are experimental phage therapies that do work sometimes. There are many case reports of people who survived multi drug resistant infections after a match was found in a phage library and then actually worked.
As antibiotic resistance continues to worsen phage therapies will continue to get more attention and funding.
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