BACTERIOPHAGE THERAPY OF Clostridium difficile.pdf

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BACTERIOPHAGE THERAPY OF Clostridium difficile
INDUCED INTESTINAL DISEASE IN A HAMSTER MODEL
VIJAYASHREE RAMESH, B.S., M.S.
An alternative to antibiotic therapy of C difficile-induced intestinal disease is the therapeutic use of bacteriophage.
Bacteriophage therapy was tried extensively and many successes were reported for a variety of diseases, including dysentery, typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, and pyogenic infections.
The increasing emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria and the slow progress of new antibiotic development some researches are re-evaluating bacteriophage therapy.