Phage Therapy: A Practical Approach
This book gives a detailed yet clear insight into the current state of the art of the therapeutic application of bacteriophages in different conditions. The authors bring in their practical expertise within their respective fields of expertise and provide
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Therapy: A Practical Approach
Phage Therapy: A Practical Approach
Andrzej Górski • Ryszard Międzybrodzki • Jan Borysowski Editors
Phage Therapy: A Practical Approach
Editors Andrzej Górski Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology Polish Academy of Sciences Wroclaw, Poland
Ryszard Międzybrodzki Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology Polish Academy of Sciences Wroclaw, Poland
Jan Borysowski Department of Clinical Immunology Medical University of Warsaw Warsaw, Poland
ISBN 978-3-030-26735-3 ISBN 978-3-030-26736-0 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26736-0
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This book is dedicated to Ludwik Hirszfeld, the founder of our institute and a pioneer of phage therapy in Poland.
Preface
The excitement about the prospects of phage therapy (PT) has been growing worldwide, fueled by the recent reports of its successful application in severe cases of bacterial infections. Reviews on PT appear almost every month, most of them written by newcomers to the field or authors who have never seen or treated any patient. This book, however, is edited by authors of whom two have seen, consulted, and treated in the past years almost 700 patients with various bacterial infections resistant to antibiotic treatment in accord with the strict ethical and legislative rules of both the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and national regulations governing healthcare and medical research. Monitoring the progress of PT clearly shows the widening gap between the very promising results achieved in experimental animal models of bacterial infections and those derived from human clinical studies. While numerous reports have confirmed th
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