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Bacteriophage therapy of bacterial infections: an update of our institute's experience
B Weber-Dabrowska1, M Mulczyk, A Górski
1Laboratory of Bacteriophages, Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw. secret@immuno.iitd.pan.wroc.pl
Archivum Immunologiae Et Therapiae Experimentalis
|February 24, 2001
Abstract:
1307 patients with suppurative bacterial infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria of different species were treated with specific bacteriophages (BP). BP therapy was highly effective; full recovery was noted in 1123 cases (85.9%). In 134 cases (10.9%) transient improvement was observed and only in 50 cases (3.8%) was BP treatment found to be ineffective. The results confirm the high effectiveness of BP therapy in combating bacterial infections which do not respond to treatment with the available antibiotics.