A potential alternative is #phage<\/a> therapy. Phages are #viruses<\/a> that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udfe0 Are highly specific to one kind of #bacteria<\/a>, leaving \u201chealthy\u201d bacteria alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udfe0 Reduce risk of bacterial resistance development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udfe0 Show low toxicity in humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although phage therapy has been around since the early 20th century, its use has not been approved in many countries. However, renewed efforts are being made to address the challenges of this technology, with the hope of increased treatment options against specific types of bacteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The illustration shows the use of phage therapy during an infection, in this case by the gonococcus bacterium, which causes #gonorrhoea<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Author: Thank you to \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8Maria Lamprecht Grand\u00edo<\/a>, a molecular microbiologist who has, since 2015, combined her two passions, #art<\/a> and #science<\/a>, to work as a postdoc researcher and freelance illustrator. The illustration was made for Professor Fernando Santos from Microbiology Department, Alicante University (Spain)<\/p>\n\n\n\n #imagenscienceadventcalendar<\/a>#phagetherapy<\/a>#sciart<\/a>#medart<\/a>#sciencecommunication<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Harnessing bacteriophages to fight infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/child.imagenscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/child.imagenscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/child.imagenscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/child.imagenscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/child.imagenscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/child.imagenscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2582,"href":"https:\/\/child.imagenscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions\/2582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/child.imagenscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/child.imagenscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/child.imagenscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/child.imagenscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/staging.careersinscience.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/PORTADAREAL_phage_resized.jpg\")
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