
Breathing New Life into Cystic Fibrosis Care: Personalized Phage Therapy Takes Aim at Superbugs
In a promising breakthrough against antibiotic-resistant infections, researchers have harnessed personalized bacteriophage therapy to combat Pseudomonas aeruginosa in adults with cystic fibrosis (CF). The innovative approach—designed to exploit bacterial “trade-offs” that weaken resistance or virulence—was used to treat nine CF patients with compassionate-use nebulized phage therapy. The results were encouraging: bacterial load in patients’ lungs…