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689 Bacteriophage vs Antibiotic Resistance (archive)
 - The People's Pharmacy®
http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/2010/03/27/689-bacteriopha/

"The problem of antibiotic resistance is increasing. Superbugs like MRSA 
(methicillin-resistant staph aureus) are becoming harder and harder to 
treat as they evolve resistance to the most powerful antibiotics used 
against them.

Back before the development of antibiotics, scientists were working on a 
different way to fight bacterial infections. They enlisted viruses that 
attack only those particular bacteria. Should we go back to this old 
bacteriophage technology for the future of fighting infection?

Guests: David Weber, MD, MPH, professor of medicine, pediatrics and 
epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Schools 
of Medicine and Public Health. He’s also associate chief of staff and 
medical director of infection control at UNC Health Care.

Elizabeth Kutter, PhD, Professor of Biophysics at the Evergreen State 
College in Olympia, Washington. She heads the Laboratory of Phage 
Biology there.

Randall Wolcott, MD, CWS, director of the Southwest Regional Wound Care 
Center in Lubbock, Texas; director of the Medical Biofilm Research 
Institute in Lubbock, Texas."