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Experimental antibiotic kills deadly superbug, opens whole new class of drugs (arstechnica.com)

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[–] appel@whiskers.bim.boats 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think bacteriophages should be investigated much more, unfortunately I don't think big pharma is that interested in them, although they are also pretty uninterested in antibiotics too, because they generally don't make much profit. So I think at least in this economic model in the west we are unlikely to have them widely available. I am admittedly quite out of date, all I remember is that there was more research and use of them in eastern europe/russia.