From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Mon Jun 12 2000 - 16:02:00 MDT
Ken Clements writes:
> Develop bacteriophage that recognize the antibiotic resistant mutations.
> Administer with the antibiotic that used to work, and it will work again. This
> is an environmentally responsible approach because the phage will not propagate
> in the "normal" bacterial population. Of course, this is still a form of arms
> race, so new phage will always have to be developed, but this is much more of a
> software problem than the new antibiotic development problem.
Not a practical solution. Controlling antiotica use is much easier.
The only way to combat resistancy is to move to invidiual molecular therapies.
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