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Doctors Used Bacteria-Killing Viruses to Take Down an Incurable Superbug
Medical bottles used to grow phages. Photo: Julien De Rosa/AFP (Getty Images)The enemy of our bacterial enemy can indeed be our friend. In a new case report, doctors say they were able to treat their patient’s long-festering, drug-resistant infection with the help of specially grown bacteriophages—viruses that infect bacteria. Large-scale clinical trials will likely be…