phage therapy

collocation in English

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phage
noun[C]
uk
/feɪdʒ/us
/feɪdʒ/
short for bacteriophage; a virus that grows and divides inside a bacterium, destroying ...
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therapy
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈθer.ə.pi/us
/ˈθer.ə.pi/
a treatment that helps someone feel better, grow stronger, etc., especially after ...
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(Definition ofphageandtherapyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Phagetherapyrevisited : the population biology of a bacterial infection and its treatment with bacteriophage and antibiotics.
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Reports suggest this bacterium is susceptible tophagetherapy.
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Phagetherapyis the therapeutic use of lytic bacteriophages to treat pathogenic bacterial infections.
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Lytic phages are more suitable forphagetherapy.
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Phagetherapysoon became a boom, and a great hope in medicine.
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Phagetherapycan also be used to treat certain bacterial infections.
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Such a process would make it difficult for large-scale production ofphagetherapy.
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The recent and escalating problems caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria has stimulated a renewed interest in the use of bacteriophages andphagetherapy.
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Although notphagetherapyin the original sense, the use of phages as delivery mechanisms for traditional antibiotics constitutes another possible therapeutic use.
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Phagetherapyhas many potential applications in human medicine as well as dentistry, veterinary science, and agriculture.
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Phagetherapyis today a widespread form of treatment in that region.
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They would have a high therapeutic index, that is,phagetherapywould be expected to give rise to few side effects.
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In the future, mycobacteriophage could be used to treat infections byphagetherapy.
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Phagetherapymay prove as an important alternative to antibiotics for treating multidrug-resistant pathogens.
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If the target host of aphagetherapytreatment is not an animal the term biocontrol (as in phage-mediated biocontrol of bacteria) is usually employed, rather thanphagetherapy.
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As it was more reliable and easier to use thanphagetherapy, it soon became the method of choice, despite side effects and problems with resistant bacteria.
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Funding forphagetherapyresearch and clinical trials is generally insufficient and difficult to obtain, since it is a lengthy and complex process to patent bacteriophage products.
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