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Personalized bacteriophage therapy outcomes for 100 consecutive cases: a multic...
Pirnay, Jean-Paul; Djebara, Sarah; Steurs, Griet; Griselain, Johann; Cochez, Christel; De Soir, Steven; Glonti, Tea; Spiessens, An; Vanden Berghe, EmilyIn contrast to the many reports of successful real-world cases of personalized bacteriophage therapy (BT), randomized controlled trials of non-personalized bacteriophage products have not produced the expected results. Here we present the outcomes of a retrospective observational analysis of the first 100 consecutive cases of personalized BT of difficult-to-treat infections facilitated by a Belgian consortium i...
Livestock-associated meticillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus(MRSA) among huma...
Kinross, Pete; Petersen, Andreas; Skov, Robert; Van Hauwermeiren, Evelyn; Pantosti, Annalisa; Laurent, Frédéric; Voss, Andreas; Kluytmans, JanCurrently, surveillance of livestock-associated meticillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus(LA-MRSA) in humans in Europe is not systematic but mainly event-based. In September 2014, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) initiated a questionnaire to collect data on the number of LA-MRSA from human samples (one isolate per patient) from national/regional reference laboratories in European Un...