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--- home:othertreatments:bacteriophage_therapy [04.24.2009] – neldawhite
+++ home:othertreatments:bacteriophage_therapy [09.16.2017] – [Bacteriophage therapy] sallieq
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+====== Bacteriophage therapy    ======
+**Bacteriophage or phage therapy** is the therapeutic use of bacteriophages to treat pathogenic bacterial infections, a therapy which has been used extensively in former Soviet Union countries for over 90 years.
+There is no evidence to suggest that the introduction of additional organisms with their DNA and RNA could have any long-term benefit.
+Indeed, the [[home:pathogenesis:horizontal_gene|horizontal gene transfer]] of DNA and RNA between organisms represents the primary mechanism by which the microbiota causing Th1 disease accumulates its pathogenic capability. Adding new pathogens only increases statistical risk: the practice might reduce overall pathogenicity or it might increase it.
+Some patients do experience improvement of symptoms during an acute infection, but not cure. In the long run, the extra pathogens can only present more problems.
+{{tag>non-MP_therapies horizontal_gene_transfer koch's_postulates}}
+===== Notes and comments =====
+  * Legacy content
+    *
+===== References =====

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