At least three U . S . start-up companies are vying to be the first to push a phage therapy through Food and Drug Administration approval.
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In August 2006, the United States Food and Drug Administration approved Phage therapy which involves spraying meat with viruses that infect bacteria, and thus preventing infection.
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Funding for phage therapy research and clinical trials is generally insufficient and difficult to obtain, since it is a lengthy and complex process to patent bacteriophage products.
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"' Phage therapy "'or "'viral phage therapy "'is the therapeutic use of bacteriophages to treat pathogenic bacterial infections.
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"' Phage therapy "'or "'viral phage therapy "'is the therapeutic use of bacteriophages to treat pathogenic bacterial infections.
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Isolated from Western advances in antibiotic production in the 1940s, Russian scientists continued to develop already successful phage therapy to treat the wounds of soldiers in field hospitals.
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The most detailed publications documenting phage therapy have come from Stefan Zlopek's group at the Institute of Immunology and Experimental Medicine of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Wroclaw.
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Recently the phage therapy approach has been applied to systemic and even intracellular infections and the addition of non-replicating phage and isolated phage enzymes like lysins to the antimicrobial arsenal.
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As it was more reliable and easier to use than phage therapy, it soon became the method of choice, despite side effects and problems with USSR, though, until its deconstruction.
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When antibiotics were discovered in 1941 and marketed widely in the U . S . and Europe, Western scientists mostly lost interest in further use and study of phage therapy for some time.
