Pursuit: Revisiting a 100-year-old medical treatment to tackle the growing crisis of antibiotic resistance

New research by A/Prof Debnath Ghosal from the Department of Biochemistry & Pharmacology, looks at using bacteria-killing viruses as antibiotic-resistant infections increase.

In the Pursuit article ‘'Revisiting a 100-year-old medical treatment to tackle the growing crisis of antibiotic resistance' Associate Professor Debnath Ghosal discusses Bacteria-killing viruses called Bacteriophages (also known as phages) that were used more than 100 years ago to treat infections, and now, as antibiotic-resistant infections increase, researchers are studying how we could bring them back.

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